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Boeing's Starliner launch delayed
The launch of Boeing's Starliner, which was set to carry astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) for the first time, has been delayed due to a technical issue.
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About two hours before the scheduled launch time on Monday, the US space agency identified an anomaly in a valve in the Atlas V rocket, the rocket manufacturer, the ULA group, announced.
"NASA’s priority is safety," reacted the director of the US space agency, Bill Nelson. The take-off will take place when everything is ready, he wrote on the social network X (formerly Twitter).
A new take-off attempt could happen today, or on Friday or Saturday, but no new date has yet been announced.
Boeing is betting heavily on this latest test mission, which should allow it to join the very small club of spacecraft that carry astronauts.
The aerospace giant has to demonstrate that the vehicle is safe before it can start regular missions to the ISS, four years behind SpaceX.
SpaceX's Dragon capsule joined this list in 2020, succeeding the legendary Mercury, Gemini, Apollo and space shuttle programs.
After the end of the shuttle program in 2011, NASA astronauts had to travel aboard the Russian Soyuz spacecraft.
To end this dependence, in 2014, the US space agency signed contracts worth 4.2 billion dollars (3.9 billion euros) with Boeing and 2.6 billion dollars (2.42 billion euros) with SpaceX for the development of new spacecraft.
Once Starliner is operational, NASA expects to alternate between SpaceX and Boeing flights to take astronauts to the ISS.
After the ISS is decommissioned in 2030, the two spacecraft could be used to transport people to future private space stations, which several US companies are already planning to build.
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