Without astronauts, Boeing’s Starliner undocks from space station
Washington DC, US Reuters Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station on Friday, leaving behind its first crew of US astronauts to return to Earth empty and finish a drawn-out test mission fraught with technical issues. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who became the first two to fly Starliner in June, […]
Space troubles: Astronauts’ plight piles pressure on Boeing’s struggling space unit
JOEY ROULETTE, of Reuters, reports on questions concerning the future of Boeing’s space business…
SpaceX to return Boeing’s Starliner astronauts from space next year, NASA says
Washington DC, US Reuters Two NASA astronauts who flew to the International Space Station in June aboard Boeing’s faulty Starliner capsule will need to return to Earth on a SpaceX vehicle early next year, NASA officials said on Saturday, deeming issues with Starliner’s propulsion system too risky to carry its first crew home as planned. […]
Boeing Starliner’s first astronaut crew welcomed aboard space station
Reuters Boeing’s new Starliner capsule and an inaugural two-member NASA crew safely docked with the International Space Station on Thursday, meeting a key test in proving the vessel’s flight-worthiness and sharpening Boeing’s competition with Elon Musk’s SpaceX. The rendezvous was achieved despite an earlier loss of several guidance-control jet thrusters, some of them due to […]
Boeing, NASA target 5th June for Starliner’s debut crew flight
Reuters Boeing and NASA said on Sunday that their teams are preparing to launch the new Starliner space capsule on June 5 after scrubbing its inaugural test flight launch attempt on Saturday. A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket is prepared for another launch attempt of two astronauts aboard Boeing’s Starliner-1 Crew Flight Test (CFT) […]
Boeing Starliner capsule’s first crewed test flight postponed
Cape Canaveral, Florida Reuters The long-awaited first crewed test flight of Boeing’s new Starliner space capsule was called off for at least 24 hours over a technical issue that launch teams were unable to resolve in time for the planned Monday night lift-off. The CST-200 Starliner’s inaugural voyage carrying astronauts to the International Space Station […]
Essay: Boeing’s Starliner is about to launch − if successful, the test represents an important milestone for commercial spaceflight
Space policy expert WENDY WHITMAN COBB, in an article first published on The Conversation, looks at how Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft may advance the idea of commercial spaceflight…
“Our enemy is here”: Iran protesters demand leaders quit after plane is downed
Dubai, UAE Reuters Protests erupted across Iran for a second day on Sunday, piling pressure on the leadership after the military admitted it had mistakenly shot down a Ukrainian airliner at a time when Tehran feared US air strikes. “They are lying that our enemy is America, our enemy is right here,” a group of […]