Sunita Williams’ 3rd Space Mission has been postponed. The postponement has been attributed to technical issues with a valve in the rocket’s second stage, as announced by NASA during a live webcast.
The much anticipated first crewed test flight of Boeing’s new Starliner space capsule was called off for at least 24 hours. This is due to a technical issue and the launch teams were unable to solve the issue in time for the planned Monday night lift-off.
As Boeing scrambles to compete with Elon Musk’s SpaceX for a greater share of lucrative NASA business, the inaugural voyage of the CST 200 Starliner’s carrying astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) has been highly anticipated and much-delayed.
This comes two years after the gumdrop- shaped capsule completed the first test flight to the orbital laboratory. However, this was without humans on board. The Starliner’s first uncrewed flight to the ISS in 2019 ended in failure.
The postponement has been attributed to an issue with a valve in the second stage of the rocket. This was announced during a live webcast of NASA. The next launch window for the mission is on Tuesday night. However, no decision was immediately made for when a second liftoff attempt would be made. The two-member crew consists of NASA astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore, 61, and Sunita “Suni” Williams, 58. For the second launch attempt, they will be assisted by technicians out of the capsule.
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