The two NASA astronauts assigned to Boeing's first human spaceflight have arrived in Florida for their May launch
The two NASA astronauts assigned to Boeing’s first human spaceflight arrived at their launch site Thursday, just over a week before their scheduled liftoff. Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will serve as test pilots for Boeing’s Starliner capsule, which is making its debut with crew after years of delay. They flew from Houston into Kennedy Space Center on Thursday.
More recently, the capsule was plagued by parachute issues and flammable tape that had to be removed. Wilmore stressed this is a test flight meant to uncover anything amiss. “Do we expect it to go perfectly? This is the first human flight of the spacecraft,' he told reporters. “I'm sure we'll find things out. That's why we do this.” NASA hired SpaceX and Boeing a decade ago, paying billions of dollars for the companies to ferry astronauts to and from the space station.
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