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Boeing Starliner crewed mission postponed shortly before launch
Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were strapped in their seats preparing for liftoff when the call for a "scrub" came, in order to give engineers time to investigate unusual readings from an oxygen relief valve on the second stage of the rocket.
The United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket sits at Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at Kennedy Space Centre, Florida, on May 5, 2024. (AFP)
By: NewVision Reporter, Journalists @NewVision
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CAPE CANAVERAL - The first crewed flight of Boeing's Starliner spaceship was dramatically called off around two hours before launch after a new safety