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Mission managers for the first flight of NASA’s Starliner spacecraft, with an astronaut crew on board, are preparing to fire seven of the capsule’s eight jet thrusters. The space agency is also delaying the vehicles departure from the International Space Station again to no earlier than this coming Saturday.

NASA says the planned splash down of its new Starliner crew capsule is now set for June 18th. Astronauts Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams will continue to check out the vehicle, which the space agency says has five helium leaks after the trip to orbit aboard an Alabama built Atlas-V rocket.

The astronauts aboard the International Space Station continue putting the new Starliner capsule through its paces. NASA says part of the mission to make improvements to Starliner for the capsule’s next flight aboard an Alabama built Atlas Five…

Boeing's new capsule arrived at the International Space Station on Thursday, delayed by last-minute thruster trouble that almost derailed the docking for this first test flight with astronauts.

NASA’s new Starliner space capsule blasted off aboard an Alabama built Atlas-V rocket today from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The mission had been delayed by a ground computer issue, a valve problem on the rocket’s upper stage called the Centaur, and by a helium leak on the crew capsule itself. That appears to be behind NASA. Also, the astronauts don’t appear to be carrying souvenirs that could be considered controversial.

NASA, Boeing, and Alabama rocket builder United Launch Alliance are troubleshooting what went wrong Saturday morning, when the planned liftoff of the new Starliner space capsule aboard an Alabama Atlas-V rocket was halted less than four minutes before engine ignition

A last-minute problem halted Saturday's launch countdown for Boeing's first astronaut flight. Two NASA astronauts were strapped into the company's Starliner capsule and awaiting liftoff when the countdown was halted at three minutes and 50 seconds.

NASA is planning to launch its newest spacecraft, called Starliner on Saturday, if all goes well. The gumdrop shaped vehicle is sitting on top of an Alabama built Atlas-V rocket. Engineers have been troubleshooting a helium leak on one of the Starliner’s jet thrusters. The mission is also notable because no astronauts have ever flown on an Alabama built Atlas-V. This type of rocket was reserved, in the past, only for unmanned payloads like satellites and deep space probes. No astronauts have flown on rockets of this type since Project Gemini in the 1960’s that paved the way for the Apollo manned moon landings. John Glenn was one.

NASA, Boeing, and rocket builder United Launch Alliance say the new target date for the launch of the new Starliner spacecraft is June first. The gumdrop shaped vehicle is sitting on top of an Atlas-V rocket built in Decatur, Alabama.

NASA says there will be no liftoff of an Alabama built Atlas-V rocket and the new Starliner spacecraft on Saturday. The space agency, Boeing who built the new capsule, and rocket builder United Launch Alliance are still troubleshooting a helium leak