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Faulty valve scuttles Starliner’s first crew launch

Faulty valve scuttles Starliner’s first crew launch

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https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/05/faulty-valve-scuttles-starliners-first-crew-launch/

Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams climbed into their seats inside Boeing's Starliner spacecraft Monday night in Florida, but trouble with the capsule's Atlas V rocket kept the commercial ship's long-delayed crew test flight on the ground.

Around two hours before launch time, shortly after 8:30 pm EDT (00:30 UTC), United Launch Alliance's launch team stopped the countdown. "The engineering team has evaluated, the vehicle is not in a configuration where we can proceed with flight today," said Doug Lebo, ULA's launch conductor.