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Astronauts endure delays and missing luggage to ride on Boeing's new Starliner spacecraft

The Boeing Starliner is launching years behind schedule and NASA had to offload crew suitcases to make room for some last-minute cargo.

Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are set to lift off at 12:25 PM ET Saturday aboard the Boeing Starliner en route to the International Space Station. “We ended up pulling off two crew suitcases, those have clothes on them,” said Dana Weigel, the manager of NASA’s International Space Station Program during a press briefing on Friday. Boeing delayed Starliner's first crewed flight last year, after company officials realized that adhesive tape used on hundreds of yards of wiring was potentially flammable, and the capsule’s three parachutes were connected with lines that appeared to be weaker than expected.

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