The first manned flight of Boeing’s Starliner area capsule has been postponed once more, and is now scheduled for April, NASA introduced Thursday.
The US area company needs to determine a second technique of transport to the International Space Station (ISS) for its astronauts, with the SpaceX capsule already in service.
But Boeing has suffered a collection of setbacks that considerably delayed its program, together with a failed take a look at flight in 2019. The firm lastly succeeded in May 2022 in reaching the ISS for the primary time—and not using a crew on board.
Boeing had then hoped to make its first manned flight in 2022, earlier than it was first pushed again to February 2023.
The new delay introduced Thursday permits to control the site visitors to the Space Station, NASA mentioned in an announcement, with out giving extra particulars.
This take a look at flight, known as CFT (for “Crew flight take a look at”), will carry two NASA astronauts, Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams. They ought to keep about two weeks within the ISS, NASA mentioned Thursday.
If the mission is profitable, the Boeing capsule will lastly be licensed and start its operational flights, at a date but to be decided.
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