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Boeing’s Starliner launch called off at last minute due to computer system aborting the countdown at three minutes and 50 seconds


A last-minute problem nixed Saturday's launch attempt for Boeing's first astronaut flight, the latest in a string of delays over the years.

Technicians raced to the pad to help astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams out of the capsule atop the fully fuelled Atlas V rocket at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. NASA astronauts Suni Williams, left, and Butch Wilmore look on at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral on Saturday, before the Starliner launch was called off. Boeing should have launched its first crew around the same time as SpaceX, but its first test flight with no one on board in 2019 was plagued by severe software issues and never made it to the space station.

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