June 7 (UPI) — NASA has awarded key contracts to a half dozen companies that will supply liquid nitrogen and liquid oxygen in support of operations at agency centers and facilities across the United States, the space agency announced Thursday. While not the most high-profile element of the space program, scientists would be unable to […]
By Joey Roulette and Steve Gorman (Reuters) -Boeing’s new Starliner capsule and its inaugural two-member NASA crew were set to approach the International Space Station for docking on Thursday after helium leaks detected on the spacecraft showed fresh problems in the crucial test mission. The CST-100 Starliner, with veteran astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita […]
Boeing’s Starliner launched its first crewed mission to space on Wednesday morning, with NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams on board. The Starliner capsule took off from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 10:52 a.m. ET. If successful, the two are expected to return to Earth in approximately 10 days. NASA […]
SpaceX bigwigs celebrated the arrival of a new American capsule on the human-spaceflight scene today (June 5). That spacecraft is Boeing’s Starliner, which is carrying NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams toward the International Space Station (ISS) after launching this morning atop a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket. “Congratulations on a successful […]
Two Nasa astronauts were on their way to the international space station on Wednesday after Boeing’s pioneering Starliner capsule finally made its much delayed first crewed flight from Cape Canaveral. The visually stunning liftoff, against a mostly clear and blue Florida sky, came seven years beyond the spacecraft’s original target date, five years after the […]
The News NASA and Boeing have launched the Starliner crew space capsule. The capsule, which launched on top of a United Launch Alliance Atlas-V rocket, now carries two American astronauts to the International Space Station for a short stay and then, all being well, it will touch back down to Earth next week. The initial […]
Boeing’s Starliner launched its first crewed mission to space on Wednesday morning, with NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams on board. The Starliner capsule took off from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 10:52 a.m. ET. If successful, the two are expected to return to Earth in approximately 10 days. NASA […]
History in the making: Welcome to FLORIDA TODAY Space Team live coverage of today’s 10:52 a.m. EDT long-awaited launch of the Boeing Starliner spacecraft on its inaugural NASA crewed mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. After two previous Starliner launch attempts got scrubbed, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams hope to take flight this morning from […]
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft is set for a third attempt to fly astronauts to space for the first time on Wednesday, a much-delayed testing milestone in the aerospace giant’s ambitions to step up its competition with Elon Musk’s SpaceX. The gumdrop-shaped CST-100 Starliner capsule, with two astronauts aboard, is due […]
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Boeing’s Starliner mission will make a third attempt at launching its first crewed flight test Wednesday in a milestone that has been a decade in the making. The new spacecraft’s maiden voyage with humans on board […]
By Joey Roulette and Steve Gorman CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) -A second attempt at launching Boeing’s new Starliner space capsule on its inaugural test flight with NASA astronauts on board was automatically halted with minutes to go before liftoff by a computer-abort system, mission officials said. The scrubbed launch, capping a string of 11th-hour technical […]
June 1 (UPI) — After several delays, test pilots Sunita “Suni” Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore scheduled launch of the first crewed mission of the Boeing Starliner spacecraft was scrubbed Saturday afternoon. A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket was set to launch the Starliner into space rom the Space Launch Complex-41 in Florida at […]