WASHINGTON: The first crewed flight of Boeing's space capsule Starliner is scheduled for February 2023, the company and NASA announced on Thursday (Aug 25), as the United States seeks to secure a second way for its astronauts to reach the International Space Station. Since 2020, American astronauts have tr
WASHINGTON: The first crewed flight of Boeing's space capsule Starliner is scheduled for February 2023, the company and NASA announced on Thursday , as the United States seeks to secure a second way for its astronauts to reach the International Space Station.
This time, the aerospace giant will send the Starliner up with humans aboard, to earn NASA's green light to begin regular missions - at an expected pace of one per year. The test flight - aptly named CFT, or Crew flight test - will carry US astronauts Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams. Boeing's teams later determined that"debris-related conditions" were to blame, Nappi said, adding that the origin of said debris was still unknown.
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