United Launch Alliance set to send NASA crew to space station


by Neowin

Neowin— We have plenty of missions this week but the most interesting will see United Launch Alliance send NASA astronauts to the International Space Station as part of NASA's commercial crew program.

NASA (.gov)—NASA Sets Coverage for Dragon Spacecraft Relocation on Space Station. The relocation, supported by flight controllers at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston and SpaceX in Hawthorne, California, will free up Harmony’s

NBC News—Boeing forced to scrub first crewed Starliner launch to the space station. NASA and Boeing were forced to stand down from an attempted launch to the International Space Station on Monday because of a last-minute issue that cropped up with a valve on the spacecraft’s rocket. Boeing’s Starliner capsule had been scheduled to lift off at 10:34 p.m. ET from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on its first crewed test flight. NASA astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita Williams were on board the capsule and strapped into their seats when the launch attempt was...

Axios—Boeing's Starliner set for first crewed mission to International Space Station. It's a critical test for Boeing, which wants to compete with SpaceX in missions to the space station.