Another misadventure in the crisis-ridden spaceship “Starliner”. Due to recent technical problems, a first manned test flight to the International Space Station has been postponed. Space agency NASA and the American aircraft manufacturer Boeing announced this at a press conference on Thursday.
It said there were problems with the parachute system and a strap on a cable connector that turned out to be flammable. NASA and Boeing representatives declined to say whether the planned test flight could go ahead this year.
The “Starliner” was supposed to depart July 21 at the earliest with NASA astronauts Barry Wilmore and Suni Williams on board for the ISS and would stay there for about a week. This date had also been postponed several times before.
Project is way behind schedule
In May 2022, the “Starliner” completed a successful unmanned flight to the ISS for the first time and spent four days there – an important test for the spacecraft. In the future, it will carry astronauts to the ISS as an alternative to SpaceX’s “Crew Dragon” space capsule. However, due to a number of problems, the project is well behind schedule.
Source: Krone
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