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Boeing's Starliner is in trouble, NASA postpones manned space launch mission again

2024-08-07

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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced on the 6th local time that the next manned space launchDelayed for at least one month.The hope is to buy more time for Boeing to resolve the "Starliner" spacecraft failure and determine the return date for the astronauts stranded in space as soon as possible.

△The "Starliner" was launched on June 5.

On June 6, American astronauts Barry Wilmore and Sunny Williams arrived at the International Space Station on the Starliner spacecraft and were originally scheduled to return to Earth on June 14, butDue to problems such as spacecraft thruster failure and helium leakage, the return time was repeatedly delayed.

This is the first manned test flight of the "Starliner". As of the 6th of this month, Wilmore and Williams have been stranded on the International Space Station for two months.

It is reported that NASA's next manned launch mission was originally scheduled to be no earlier than the 18th of this month, and the "Dragon" spacecraft of the US Space Exploration Technology Corporation (SpaceX) will send four astronauts to the International Space Station.