Following multiple delays over the last month, NASA has announced a new target launch date for the first crewed flight of the Starliner capsule.
After a series of recent delays, NASA and Boeing Space are now aiming to perform the first crewed launch of the Starliner spacecraft on Saturday, June 1.
The decision to target June follows a series of launch postponements over the last month. On May 6, for example, a launch attempt from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida was called off with just two hours left on the countdown clock after an issue was found with a valve on the Centaur upper stage of United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket.
As engineers worked on fixing the problem in the days that followed, a small helium leak was discovered on the Starliner, prompting NASA and Boeing to scrap a new launch target of May 17.
