The launch of Boeing’s first Starliner mission with astronauts aboard was called off on Saturday for at least 24 hours over a technical issue, a company official said.
2nd attempt to blast off scrubbed; 1st launch attempt failed on May 6
The launch of Boeing’s first Starliner mission with astronauts aboard was called off on Saturday for at least 24 hours over a technical issue, a company official said.
The launch was scrubbed for a second time just a few minutes before the scheduled time to blast off.
NASA ground control, reporting from Cape Canaveral in Florida, said the final countdown was put on hold at 12:21 p.m. ET by the ground launch sequencer, a computer program responsible for systems during a launch.
The space agency said the two NASA astronauts, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, were to be removed from the capsule.
A first attempt to launch Starliner failed on May 6 over an oxygen leak.
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