NEW DELHI: ULA launch director Tom Heter III on Tuesday introduced that the launch of Atlas V and Starliner which was scheduled for immediately, have been postponed.
“In the present day’s Starliner launch is scrubbed as groups consider an oxygen aid valve on the Centaur Stage on the Atlas V. Our astronauts have exited Starliner and can return to crew quarters,” mentioned Nasa in a submit on X (previously Twitter).
“In the present day’s Starliner launch is scrubbed as groups consider an oxygen aid valve on the Centaur Stage on the Atlas V. Our astronauts have exited Starliner and can return to crew quarters,” mentioned Nasa in a submit on X (previously Twitter).
Indian-origin astronaut Captain Sunita Williams and her colleague, veteran Nasa astronaut Butch Wilmore, had been a part of the mission to the Worldwide Area Station (ISS).
The launch, which might have marked the primary crewed take a look at flight of the Starliner, was scheduled to happen at 10:34pm EDT on Could 6 (8:04 am IST on Could 7) from the Cape Canaveral Area Power Station in Florida.
As a part of its dedication to the ISS, Boeing has deliberate six manned missions for the Starliner over the subsequent six years. NASA intends to make use of each SpaceX‘s Dragon and Boeing’s Starliner to ship astronauts to the ISS at the least each six months from US soil.
(With inputs from businesses)
