Boeing mission to send NASA astronauts to space station faces more lengthy delays

More lengthy delays could be in store for Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft, which is designed to ferry astronauts to and from the International Space Station and compete with SpaceX’s Crew Dragon. Boeing had been working toward a late July launch of the first crewed Starliner test flight. But “we did have two new issues that cropped up as part of our review process,” said Mark Nappi, Boeing’s vice president and program manager for the CST-100 Starliner, during a Thursday news briefing. “So, we spent the last week really looking at those in more detail.” More

(Source: CNN - Jun 2)