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Boeing’s first crewed Starliner launch delayed again over computer issues


Boeing makes another go at a crewed Starliner launch.

The flight is meant to take two US astronauts — Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams — up to the International Space Station (ISS), where they plan to dock at 1:50PM ET tomorrow, June 2nd (NASA will live stream this, as well). Wilmore and Williams will stay on the station for a week to carry out testing of Starliner and its subsystems prior to NASA’s final certification of the craft for rotational missions to ISS. Prior to that, Boeing’s Starliner faced repeated delays and setbacks, including a failed 2019 mission, but finally successfully docked its capsule, unmanned, with the ISS in 2022.

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