Two astronauts are about to set off for the International Space aboard Boeing’s Starliner capsule. If all goes well, Starliner will join SpaceX’s Dragon as a US shuttle into orbit
from Cape Canaveral in Florida. If the launch goes to plan, Starliner and its two passengers will arrive at the International Space Station on 8 May.didn’t take place until 2019. That flight reached orbit, but software issues prevented it from meeting up with the ISS. AThe two test astronauts aboard Starliner are Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams, each of whom has already been to the ISS twice before. The plan is for them to stay aboard the ISS for a week before returning to Earth.
NASA awarded Boeing the contract to use Starliner as a shuttle to the ISS in 2014, at the same time as a similar contract was awarded to SpaceX for its. Boeing has lagged behind Dragon, which made its first crewed flight in 2020 and is now on its eighth operational mission.When both are operational, it will give NASA a choice between rides to the ISS, which has not been the case since thein 2011.
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