Boeing Retargeting March 2024 For Starliner Crew Flight Test

Irene Klotz August 07, 2023
Credit: John Grant/Boeing
Redesigning and testing part of the parachute system on the Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft will delay a long-awaited crew flight test (CFT) until March 2024 at the earliest. The problem with the parachute system was one of two issues that came to light as Boeing and NASA conducted a checkpoint...
Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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