Boeing forced to call off its first launch with NASA astronauts once again

NASA and Boeing were forced once again to call off the first crewed launch of the company’s Starliner spacecraft. Boeing’s Starliner capsule was scheduled to lift off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Saturday at 12:25 p.m. ET, carrying NASA astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita Williams to the International Space Station. It would have been the vehicle’s first crewed test flight.

A separate helium leak was subsequently discovered in the Starliner’s propulsion system, further delaying the key test flight. The rocket’s valve was replaced, mission controllers said at a news briefing last week, but the helium leak was not repaired before Saturday’s scheduled flight because it was determined to be unlikely to pose a threat to the crew or the spacecraft. Both SpaceX and Boeing developed their spacecraft as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program.

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