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Boeing’s Starliner capsule ready for second attempt at first astronaut flight

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Increase / Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft sits atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. NASA and Boeing officials are preparing for a second launch attempt on the first crewed test flight of the Starliner spacecraft on Saturday from the Cape Canaveral Space Station in Florida. Liftoff … Read more

ISS has a problem with the urine pump. Boeing’s Starliner astronaut launch will follow suit.

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A space capsule atop a rocket ship rests against a launch tower.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft is ready for its long-awaited first manned launch. That liftoff, which will begin a Crew Flight Test (CFT) mission to the International Space Station (ISS), is scheduled for 12:25 p.m. EDT (1625 GMT) Saturday (June 1) from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station here, on top United Launch Alliance … Read more