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 spacecraft aboard is seen on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station ahead of the Crew Flight Test mission on Sunday, May 5, 2024.Boeing's new Starliner capsule has been cleared, again, for its first-ever astronaut launch.
After a flight readiness review today , teams from Boeing, NASA and United Launch Alliance polled"go" to proceed toward the Saturday launch of the highly anticipatedto the International Space Station for a roughly week-long stay. The mission is set to launch atop a ULA Atlas V rocket on Saturday at 12:25 p.m. EDT from, but that try was scrubbed about two hours before launch when teams noticed a misbehaving valve in the Atlas V's upper stage.
Mission teams took some time to assess the leak, pushing the target launch date further to the right. They ultimately determined that the leak was stable and did not pose an appreciable threat to CFT mission success, as the results of today's review show.
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