Boeing’s troubled Starliner capsule now aiming for July launch

Boeing’s troubled Starliner capsule now aiming for July launch

NNA - NASA and Boeing are now targeting July 30 for an uncrewed test flight of the aerospace company's troubled Starliner capsule to the International Space Station, they announced Thursday.

The launch has been postponed multiple times, with the last announced date of April scuppered due to a cold snap that caused extensive power outages in Texas in March.

The NASA Commercial Crew program is run partly from the Johnson Space Center in Houston, though it launches from Cape Canaveral in Florida.

Lift-off is now scheduled for 2:53 pm Eastern Time (1853 GMT) on July 30.

"NASA and Boeing have done an incredible amount of work to get to this point," said Steve Stich, Commercial Crew program manager.

Starliner's first crewed flight is expected to follow after that, no earlier than September.

During an initial uncrewed test flight in December 2019, the Starliner capsule failed to dock at the ISS