Boeing Starliner's first crewed flight launch called off due to stuck valve

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Boeing's first astronaut-crewed flight into space has been called off due to a stuck valve on the spacecraft’s rocket Monday, the United Launch Alliance announced.

The Starliner Crew Flight Test, developed in collaboration with NASA's Commercial Crew Program, was set to launch from Space Launch Complex-41 atop an Atlas V rocket at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 10:34 p.m. ET before it was called off.
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upside: the launch vehicle's 1st stage is at least powered by a reliable rocket engine, the Russian RD-180 ;)
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another plus, it's only really Boeing once you get to space i.e. it's the capsule and service module only, the launch vehicle is decidedly non-Boeing
 
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NarrowBandFtw said:
well sh33t, unsurprisingly the Boeing piece of this whole suicide mission now has issues :ROFL:

it's a Boeing so you ain't going ... home that is, you ain't going home astronauts!
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Per the article:

Should this Starliner test mission encounter additional setbacks, however, it could put Boeing in a situation where it must rely on its rival to get Williams and Wilmore home.

“The embarrassing backup is that a Crew Dragon would have to go and retrieve the astronauts,” Lembeck said. The spacecraft “could be sent up with two crew members and sent back with four — and that would probably be the way home.”
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NarrowBandFtw said:
well sh33t, unsurprisingly the Boeing piece of this whole suicide mission now has issues :ROFL:

it's a Boeing so you ain't going ... home that is, you ain't going home astronauts!
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They are keeping it up there while it continues to leak helium, this might not be good. In the meantime Boeing's press releases do not mention anything about a problem, but rather that they are continuing with a test programme: https://starlinerupdates.com/
 
garyc said:
They are keeping it up there while it continues to leak helium, this might not be good. In the meantime Boeing's press releases do not mention anything about a problem, but rather that they are continuing with a test programme: https://starlinerupdates.com/
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jissis, imagine the thing blows and takes the ISS with it ...
 
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