US astronauts train for space mission on Boeing’s new Starliner spacecraft
Boeing and SpaceX are competing to become the first private firm to resume human space flight from US soil after the space shuttle programme ended in 2011
22 August 2019 - 13:32
Houston — A crew of veteran US astronauts and aviators are training in Houston for a piloted mission to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard Boeing’s new Starliner spacecraft, which could also be used to take tourists into space on future missions.
The Boeing Starliner mission was originally scheduled for August, but that has been delayed to at least the end of the year or into 2020 due to technical issues and amid a shake-up in the top echelons of the space agency...
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