Michael Wall is a Senior Space Writer with Space.com and joined the team in 2010. He primarily covers exoplanets, spaceflight and military space, but has been known to dabble in the space art beat. His book about the search for alien life, 'Out There,' was published on Nov. 13, 2018.
The Boeing Starliner capsule that will fly the company’s Crew Flight Test mission to the International Space Station is shown at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in April 2023.The first crewed launch of Boeing's new Starliner capsule has been delayed by an additional five days, to May 6.
"The date adjustment optimizes space station schedule of activities planned toward the end of April, including a cargo spacecraft undocking and a crew spacecraft port relocation required for Starliner docking," they added.CFT will send NASA astronauts Barry"Butch" Wilmore and Suni Williams to the ISS aboard Starliner for a roughly 10-day stay.
It has taken longer than expected to get Starliner ready for its first astronaut flight. Boeing had to fix an issue with the capsule's parachute system, for example. And the company removed much of the tape the team used to wrap Starliner's wiring afterSpaceX has already launched eight such operational missions for the agency, as well as a crewed test flight to the orbiting lab called, which lifted off in May 2020.
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