Boeing is targeting February 2023 to fly its first Starliner mission with astronauts aboard to the International Space Station, Boeing and Nasa officials said on Thursday, as the aerospace company nears the final leg of a costly and much-delayed ...
Starliner’s first crewed flight would come nearly a year after the spacecraft flew to the space station and back without any humans in March, completing a critical demonstration mission for Nasa on its second try after software failures cut short a similar test flight in 2019.
“Currently, we’re targeting a launch date as early as February of 2023,” Steve Stich, head of the Nasa programme that oversees Starliner’s development, told reporters in a joint news conference with Boeing. The eight-day mission, transporting Nasa astronauts Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams to the station and back, would mark the final test mission before Nasa can certify Starliner for routine astronaut missions.
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