Editor’s note: Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. (CNN) — The world will have to wait at least another week before the highly anticipated first crewed mission of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft.
A helium leak has delayed the launch of the Starliner’s crewed flight test mission with two NASA astronauts. Here’s the next opportunity to watch history in action.Astronauts could be seen getting off Boeing’s new Starliner spacecraft in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on May 6, after a technical issue caused the launch to be scrubbed.The world will have to wait at least another week before the highly anticipated first crewed mission of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft.
This mission, dubbed the Crew Flight Test, could be the final major milestone before NASA deems Boeing’s spacecraft ready for routine operations as part of the federal agency’s Commercial Crew Program. Williams and Wilmore will fly back to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in the coming days, according to the release.The occasion is a decade in the making — the culmination of Boeing’s efforts to develop a spacecraft worthy of ferrying astronauts to and from the International Space Station under NASA’s commercial program.
Boeing designed the Starliner to rival SpaceX’s prolific Crew Dragon capsule and would join in NASA’s push to collaborate with private industry partners, expanding US options for ferrying astronauts to the International Space Station.Development hang-ups, test flight problems and other costly setbacks have slowed Starliner’s path to the launchpad.
The United Launch Alliance team, which builds the Atlas V rocket, identified a pressure regulation valve on a liquid oxygen tank that needed replacing. The valve has since been replaced, but the new issue with the helium leak on the Boeing spacecraft that sits atop the rocketis causing further delay.
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