NASA, Boeing Close Out All Actions from Starliner Review Written 18 June 2021
Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft mounted atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. | Frank Michaux/NASA
Space News reports that NASA and The Boeing Company “announced June 16 that they had closed all the actions from an independent review in early 2020 to address problems with the first Orbital Flight Test (OFT) mission of the spacecraft in December 2019. That review made 80 recommendations involving testing, software development, communications and other issues.” The December 2019 “mission was cut short, and a planned docking with the International Space Station canceled, because of software problems.” With the completion of the review, the company now is able to launch its second uncrewed mission, called OFT-2, in July. NASA confirmed that the mission remains on schedule to launch July 30.
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