NASA, Boeing delay Starliner capsule's 1st astronaut launch to early May

The long-delayed first crewed mission of Boeing's new Starliner capsule has been pushed back again. That mission to the International Space Station (ISS), called Crew Flight Test (CFT), had been tentatively scheduled to launch in mid-April. But that's no longer the plan, NASA and Boeing announced on Friday (March 8). CFT is "currently scheduled to launch [in] early May due to space station scheduling," agency officials wrote in an update on Friday afternoon. More

(Source: Space.com - Mar 10)