Boeing renews the attempt to start the first spaceci with a human crew

Boeing and the American Aviation and Space Administration (NASA) intends to repeat the attempt to start the first crew on orbit on the company’s spacecraft, a long -standing effort to delay as a result of helium leakage last month. CST-100 Starliner, a company, is expected to start today, Saturday, from the Cape CanaFirale base in the US state of Florida, at 12:25 a.m. local time. The spacecraft will transport Sonita “Sony” Williams and Barry “Poach” Wigmore, from Nasa to the International Space Station; Where they will try to do this for about a week. A definite test is a decisive test for NASA to prove that “Starlaner” can transfer people from the International Space Station safely and under the commercial crew program of the US Space Agency. In 2014, Nasa gave Boeing a $ 4.2 billion contract, and the last $ 2.6 billion to SpaceX, which is attached to Elon Musk, to create vehicles to transport the pioneers from the agency to space. While “Starlaner” was seven years later than the specified date due to a long series of errors and technical errors, Since 2020, SpaceX has introduced nine separate sets to the “NASA” space station for its budget for the program at about $ 1.5 billion. The company’s defensive and space department is expected to lose money during the second quarter, according to the financial director Brian West at a May conference, which indicates that the “cost pressure” is at fixed prices. Regardless of what will happen to this launch, Boeing has questions about the long -term vision of her space industry. It is not yet clear whether Starlaner will be used after six other missions after the International Space Station for NASA. Late last year, West told a limited event of investors that the company has a decision to be made regarding the future investment in the program, according to Bloomberg. Technical problems The purpose of the launch today, Saturday, comes to a state of certainty about the beginning of this task. “Nasa” and “Boeing” attempted to start on May 6, but the mission monitors stopped the countdown after strange notes on a valve in the rocket, which forced Williams and Wilmore to leave the spacecraft and wait for another launch day. Engineers replaced the valve, but the release was postponed again after Boeing discovered a leak of fullness in one of the many “Starlaner” engines. After analyzes and meetings for weeks, Boeing and Nasa finally decided to move forward with the launch process without recovering the leak, saying that it did not cause the safety problem, and that the engineers would monitor him throughout the journey. “We can handle up to four other leaks, and we can handle this leak specifically if the leak rises to 100 times,” Steve Steich, director of the NASA’s commercial staff program, said at a press conference. Seth Sefman, an analyst at JB Morgan, said in a research note on May 27 that the new delays in the launch would be forced to resist “Boeing” to withstand other extra “Starlaner” fees. If “Starlaner” can fly on the space station successfully, William and Wilmmore will stay on board about a week. The crew has initial plans to return to Earth early, perhaps on June 10 in the Boeing spacetaxi, which is planned to land under umbrellas in the southwest of the United States.