Boeing and NASA have announced they are calling off the planned orbital test flight of the Starliner spacecraft, with the craft returning to a Boeing facility.
Boeing and NASA have announced that they are calling off the planned test flight of the Starliner spacecraft, which is designed to ferry astronauts between Earth and the International Space Station. The Starliner had remained at the launch site in United Launch Alliance’s Vertical Integration Facility in hopes of a quick fix to a value issue, but now the Starliner will be moved back to a Boeing facility for further work. Boeing intended to send the Starliner on its second orbit flight test last week, but this was called off when a valve issue was discovered. Initially, Boeing engineers said they still hoped to be able to address the issue and launch the capsule within the month of August, but subsequent work was unable to completely fix the problem.
