The flight was aborted less than two hours before the countdown on Monday evening (local time) because a problem with a valve in the rocket’s second stage could not be fixed in time, NASA said in its live stream. A new date for the test flight, which has already been postponed several times, was not initially announced.
The CST-200 Starliner was supposed to launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida with an Atlas V rocket from the United Launch Alliance, a joint venture between Boeing and Lockheed Martin, and take two astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS).
It was initially unclear how long it would take to fix the problem. A date for the next start attempt has not yet been set. Astronauts Barry Wilmore and Suni Williams left the Starliner capsule and returned to their crew quarters at the Cape Canaveral spaceport in the US state of Florida, NASA said. They were actually planned to arrive at the ISS on Wednesday and stay there for around a week.
Costs exceeded by $1.5 billion
For the arrival of the Starliner, SpaceX’s Crew Dragon, which was docked there, was moved to another docking station at the ISS. Boeing is already facing intense public scrutiny and a major review of its quality control following a series of crises in commercial aviation. The company wanted to set a sign of success with the Starliner.
To save the program, which is years behind schedule, it has so far exceeded projected costs by more than $1.5 billion. While Boeing is struggling with difficulties, Tesla founder Elon Musk’s SpaceX has become a reliable partner for NASA for transport into space.
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