Boeing Starliner Crew Flight Test Shifts To No Earlier Than May 25

Credit: United Launch Alliance
CAPE CANAVERAL—Launch of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner on a long-delayed flight test with two NASA astronauts was postponed to no earlier than May 25 to allow additional time to assess a small helium leak in one of the spacecraft’s reaction control system (RCS) thrusters, NASA said on May 17. The leak...
Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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