Initiation of First space flight There was a Boeing crew Cancelled When it was about two hours before departure International Space Station (ISS) from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
One of the reasons for the cancellation was failures Valves Launch the launcher Atlas vFrom a private company United Publishing Alliance (ULA), in which the vessel is loaded Starliner of BoeingNASA said.
The decision to cancel the departure is taken by the responsible person launch According to ULA, Tom Hetter III, and the US space agency, the teams will review one Valves of oxygen from Atlas vThe appearance of technical failure is obvious.
“The first priority of NASA It is security. We’ll go when we’re ready,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, confirming the cancellation this way.
Starliner was scheduled to lift off from the launch pad at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station with the astronauts at 10:34pm local time tonight. NASA On board, Barry ‘Butch’ Wilmore and Sunita Williams.
Not even NASA Or the private company is yet to announce a new launch date.
Boeing’s CFT (Crew Flight Test) mission aims to receive the necessary certifications from NASA to begin operating as a second provider of crew and cargo transport to the orbital laboratory, an officially commissioned service from 2020. Signature SpaceX.
Provided by the US Space Agency Boeing From 2014 to date, about $4.2 billion has been spent to achieve this goal, so expectations today at Cape Canaveral were considerable.
During the same period, SpaceX 2.6 billion dollars and its Dragon capsule has already made more than a dozen flights. EEISome of the differences are noted by its CEO, Elon Musk, in a news release Boeing“.
Cancellation adds a thread setbacks Who registered? StarlinerWho could fly EEI After two failed attempts in 2019 and 2021, in May 2022 in the first test without a team.
Boeing, which had planned to launch the mission on July 21, 2023, had no setbacks facing its first manned mission, but some failures were found in the parachute system and some fiber insulating tape glass. With a month and a half to go, we were forced to postpone.
“I can say with absolute confidence that the teams have done their full due diligence,” NASA Associate Administrator James Free said during a teleconference last week, making clear his confidence in the success of the mission that was supposed to take off today.
Frei added that the CFT is a test flight, and as such, astronauts and controllers expect unexpected events to arise.
With information from EFE
