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.
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with Boeing's Starliner rolls from the Vertical Integration Facility to the launch pad at Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida on May 30, 2024.That launch, at 12:25 p.m. EDT , will kick off Crew Flight Test , the first-ever astronaut mission for Starliner and the venerable
'It's so complicated:' Boeing Starliner teams diagnosing helium leak ahead of June 1 astronaut launchIt was the second trip to the pad in less than a month for the Starliner-Atlas V stack. The duo first made the trip on May 4, ahead of a planned May 6 launch. That attempt, however, was scrubbed about two hours before liftoff when team members noticed a misbehaving valve in the Atlas V's Centaur upper stage. ULA decided to replace the valve, which requiredThat process pushed CFT's targeted launch back to May 17. The date shifted further to the right, however, after a slight helium leak was detected in one of the reaction-control thrusters in Starliner's service module.
Boeing, NASA and ULA ultimately determined that the helium leak is a minor issue and, after a flight readiness review on Wednesday , for about seven days. If all goes well, Starliner will be certified to fly operational, six-month crewed missions to and from the orbiting lab for NASA. . Elon Musk's company flew its version of CFT, known as Demo-2, back in 2020 and is now in the middle of its eighth operational crewed mission to the ISS.
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