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submitted 2 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

The launch attempt was called off roughly two hours ahead of the planned liftoff.

NASA and Boeing were forced to stand down from an attempted launch to the International Space Station on Monday because of a last-minute issue that cropped up with a valve on the spacecraft’s rocket.

Boeing’s Starliner capsule had been scheduled to lift off at 10:34 p.m. ET from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on its first crewed test flight. NASA astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita Williams were on board the capsule and strapped into their seats when the launch attempt was called off, roughly two hours ahead of the planned liftoff.

A new launch date has not yet been announced.

Mission controllers declared a launch “scrub” after an anomaly was detected on an oxygen valve on United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket, which the Starliner capsule was to ride into orbit.

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[-] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 28 points 2 months ago

I've been saying this for years now. Boeing is going to kill NASA astronauts if they are allowed to get their way.

[-] ghostblackout@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

It wasn't the space craft it was a valve on the centaur upper stage (second stage)

[-] toast@retrolemmy.com 21 points 2 months ago

Exactly. It was a fault on the rocket, which was manufactured by ULA, a joint venture between Lockheed and Boeing....oh, crap

[-] ghostblackout@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

ULA makes that atlas v rocket by themselves boeing just bought a atlas v

[-] toast@retrolemmy.com 3 points 2 months ago

But Boeing owns 50% of ULA. Buying from ULA is just buying from Boeing with extra steps

[-] ghostblackout@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I'm not getting in to another argument with people on the Internet good day sir

[-] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

People already are forgetting about Boeings space capsule test

[-] Emerald@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

First one failed, but they redid it and it docked

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