The US Aeronautics and Space Administration said Tuesday it has postponed the target date for the next attempt to launch Boeing’s Starliner space capsule to replace a pressure valve on its booster rocket.
The new date for the first manned test flight of the space capsule will not be before May 17.
The first flight of the CST-100 Starliner vehicle is attracting many attention, as it will carry astronauts to the International Space Station.
The test flight was postponed on Monday evening, less than two hours before the countdown began, after a malfunction was discovered in the pressure regulating valve in the liquid oxygen tank in the upper stage of a rocket scheduled to launch the new capsule into orbit.
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