Starliner: Nasa to fly new Boeing space craft to ISS


by BBC News

BBC News— Two Nasa astronauts are due to set off to the International Space Station in a new spacecraft in the early hours of Tuesday morning UK time.

Public Radio of Armenia—Starliner: Nasa to fly new craft to space station. Two Nasa astronauts are due to head for the International Space Station aboard a new spacecraft, the BBC reports. Boeing’s Starliner will blast off from Cape Canaveral in Florida, in its first crewed test flight. The mission has been delayed for several years because of setbacks in the spacecraft’s development. If it is successful, it …

WTVR.com—Boeing is on the verge of launching astronauts into space with new Starliner capsule. After years of delays and stumbles, Boeing is finally poised to launch astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA.

Yahoo—Boeing's new Starliner capsule set for first crewed flight to space station. Boeing Co's new Starliner astronaut capsule was poised for a Monday night launch of its long-delayed inaugural crewed test flight to the International Space Station, two years after its first voyage without humans to the orbital laboratory. The gumdrop-shaped CST-100 Starliner with two astronauts aboard was due for liftoff at 10:34 p.m. (0234 GMT on Tuesday) from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, carried atop an Atlas V rocket furnished by the Boeing-Lockheed Martin joint venture United...