The long-awaited Starliner mission is on track to carry two NASA astronauts — Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore — to the International Space Station.
After years of delays and a dizzying array of setbacks during test flights, Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft is finally set to make its inaugural crewed launch. The mission is on track to take off from Florida as soon as May 6, carrying
and its partner space agencies. Such a scenario — with both Crew Dragon and Starliner flying regularly — is one for which the US space agency has long waited. “This is history in the making,” had favored Boeing — a close partner dating back to the mid-20th century — over SpaceX, which the federal agency saw as a relatively young and capricious upstart. Boeing, SpaceX and
astronauts and even paying customers and tourists. The spacecraft has now flown 13 crewed missions to orbit. Boeing, however, has spent several years contending with a string of challenges, including a list of issues that were uncovered in 2022 during the spacecraft’s second uncrewed test flight.
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