{"id":781886,"date":"2024-05-06T05:58:51","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T10:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=781886"},"modified":"2024-05-06T05:58:51","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T10:58:51","slug":"boeing-starliners-first-crewed-launch-into-space-is-set-for-monday-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=781886","title":{"rendered":"Boeing Starliner’s first crewed launch into space is set for Monday : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\n Photographers capture the Boeing Starliner capsule atop an Atlas V rocket as it is rolled out to the launch pad at Space Launch Complex 41, Saturday, May 4, 2024, in Cape Canaveral, Fla.
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After a series of troubled test flights and ongoing problems with its commercial aviation wing, Boeing is set to launch its Starliner space capsule into orbit on Monday carrying human pilots for the first time.<\/p>\n

The latest test flight comes roughly a decade after NASA awarded Boeing a more than $4 billion contract as part of the agency’s effort to pay private companies to help ferry astronauts to and from the International Space Station, following the retirement of the space shuttle in 2011.<\/p>\n

SpaceX, which was also awarded a contract through the same NASA initiative, has flown nine missions for NASA and another four private, crewed spaceflights.<\/p>\n