{"id":186691,"date":"2024-04-03T10:26:08","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T15:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/boeing-cant-seem-to-stop-delaying-its-first-astronaut-launch"},"modified":"2024-04-03T10:26:08","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T15:26:08","slug":"boeing-cant-seem-to-stop-delaying-its-first-astronaut-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/boeing-cant-seem-to-stop-delaying-its-first-astronaut-launch","title":{"rendered":"Boeing Can\u2019t Seem to Stop Delaying Its First Astronaut Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/boeing-cant-seem-to-stop-delaying-its-first-astronaut-launch2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first crewed test launch of Boeing\u2019s troubled Starliner spacecraft <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/boeing-starliner-cft-astronaut-launch-delay-may-6\" class=\"\">has been delayed<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/space\/2023\/08\/starliner-undergoing-three-independent-investigations-as-flight-slips-to-2024\/\" class=\"\">yet again<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This time, however, it\u2019s seemingly <em>not<\/em> about the aerospace giant\u2019s massive technical difficulties in getting its astronaut shuttle off the ground \u2014 with or <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/boeings-starliner-fails-first-attempt-reach-iss\" class=\"\">without<\/a> a crew on board.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFollowing a review of the International Space Station operations, NASA\u2019s Boeing Crew Flight Test now is targeting no earlier than Monday, May 6, for Starliner\u2019s first launch with astronauts to the orbital complex,\u201d reads an <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nasa.gov\/commercialcrew\/2024\/04\/02\/nasa-boeing-update-launch-date-for-starliners-first-astronaut-flight\/\" class=\"\">official NASA update<\/a>. \u201cThe date adjustment optimizes space station schedule of activities planned toward the end of April, including a cargo spacecraft undocking and a crew spacecraft port relocation required for Starliner docking.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first crewed test launch of Boeing\u2019s troubled Starliner spacecraft has been delayed yet again. This time, however, it\u2019s seemingly not about the aerospace giant\u2019s massive technical difficulties in getting its astronaut shuttle off the ground \u2014 with or without a crew on board. \u201cFollowing a review of the International Space Station operations, NASA\u2019s Boeing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}