Company, which has been plagued by safety issues in its avionics wing, will send two astronauts to the ISS in its new spacecraft
Boeing has an opportunity on Monday night to restore some luster to its tarnished name, with the scheduled first crewed launch fromAlthough the company’s space operations are entirely independent of its aviation wing, which has been plagued by a recent series ofto the International Space Station should have taken flight in 2017, before supply and production hold-ups, hardware and software issues, and...
Boeing managers, however, are confident the setbacks have been overcome, due to the dedication of hundreds of its own employees, as well as almost 450 suppliers from 37 states. If successful, Monday’s week-long test mission will lead to six further astronaut rotation flights to the space station that Nasa has ordered as part of its
It means the American astronauts onboard Monday’s flight, Sunita Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore, each veterans of three space shuttle missions, will mostly be monitoring its progress in communication with ground crews, but can step in to take over manually if needed. “ like an orchestra. Starliner has many instruments playing different, complicated parts, but it’s the timing and interaction between each instrument that is especially critical.”Our US morning briefing breaks down the key stories of the day, telling you what’s happening and why it mattersCenter since 25 April to prepare for Monday’s flight, but their overall wait has been much longer. Williams was assigned to the flight in 2018, and Wilmore upgraded from a backup role two years later.
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