Following the dramatic halt to proceedings just minutes before liftoff on Saturday, NASA has now shared a new target launch date for the Starliner spacecraft.
After calling off the launch of Boeing Space’s Starliner spacecraft on Saturday with just minutes to go, NASA says it’s now aiming to send the vehicle on its first crewed mission at 10:52 a.m. ET on Wednesday, June 5.
Recommended Videos In a message posted on Sunday, NASA said that technicians and engineers with ULA have spent the weekend assessing the launchpad’s ground support equipment that encountered issues during Saturday’s countdown, prompting the mission to be postponed. As part of the work to resolve the issue, the chassis containing the faulty ground power unit was removed, visually inspected, and replaced with a spare chassis, NASA said, adding that there were no signs of any physical damage. The space agency said that a full failure analysis of the power unit will be carried out to better understand the root cause of the incident. It also noted that all of the hardware is performing as expected following functional checkouts of the new chassis and the cards.
The plan is to fly the Starliner to the International Space Station . Wilmore and Williams will stay there for a week before returning home in the spacecraft in a parachute-assisted landing.
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