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NASA and Boeing aim to redo Starliner spacecraft test later this year after investigating failures - CNBC

NASA and Boeing aim to redo Starliner spacecraft test later this year after investigating failures - CNBC

NASA and Boeing aim to redo Starliner spacecraft test later this year after investigating failures - CNBC
Jul 07, 2020 54 secs

NASA and Boeing are targeting later this year to re-fly a key test of the company's Starliner spacecraft, although the U.S.

A NASA investigation found 80 recommended changes for Boeing to make to its spacecraft, after the aerospace company's December spaceflight test failed due to multiple anomalies.

While Boeing was able to conduct tests of many parts of Starliner during the shortened flight, NASA declared the flight test a "close call," saying that the spacecraft could have been lost twice during the mission.

While NASA's investigation into the failed flight test was unfinished at the time, Boeing in April said that it will re-do the uncrewed flight test.

"Today we're turning the page from the investigation phase from [the flight test] into hardware development" for the next flight, NASA Commercial Crew program manager Steve Stich told reporters.

In April 2019, NASA said that Boeing's uncrewed flight test was targeting August, with its first crewed Starliner flight aiming for "late 2019," while SpaceX was investigating a Crew Dragon test failure.

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