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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida, May 6 (Reuters) – The long-awaited first crewed test flight<\/a> of Boeing’s (BA.N), opens new tab<\/a> new Starliner space capsule was called off for at least 24 hours over a technical issue that launch teams were unable to resolve in time for the planned Monday night lift-off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The CST-200 Starliner’s inaugural voyage carrying astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) has been highly anticipated and much-delayed as Boeing scrambles to compete with Elon Musk’s SpaceX for a greater share of lucrative NASA business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It comes two years after the gumdrop-shaped capsule completed its first test flight to the orbital laboratory without humans aboard. The Starliner’s first uncrewed flight to the ISS in 2019 ended in failure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its latest flight was scrubbed with less two hours left in the countdown as the capsule stood poised for blastoff from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida atop an Atlas V rocket furnished by United Launch Alliance, a Boeing-Lockheed Martin\u00a0(LMT.N), opens new tab<\/a>\u00a0joint venture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The postponement, attributed to an issue with a valve in the rocket’s second stage, was announced during a live NASA webcast. The next available launch window for the mission is Tuesday night, but no decision was immediately made for when a second liftoff attempt would be made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The two-member crew – NASA astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore, 61, and Sunita “Suni” Williams, 58 – had been strapped into their seats aboard the spacecraft about an hour before launch activities were suspended for the night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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