NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams look on at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, on the day of Boeing's Starliner-1 Crew Flight Test (CFT) mission on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket to the International Space Station, in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., June 1, 2024.
The launch of Boeing's first Starliner mission with astronauts aboard was called off on Saturday for at least 24 hours over a technical issue, a company official said.Posted: Jun 01, 2024 12:44 PM EDT | Last Updated: 10 minutes agoAfter a May 6 launch scrub, Boeing and NASA are trying once again to launch the first crew on Starliner, where they will dock with the International Space Station.
The space agency said the two NASA astronauts, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, were to be removed from the capsule.A previous version of this story said the first attempt to launch failed on May 6 over the rocket's helium leak. In fact, it was an oxygen leak.
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