Posted on 04/17/2024 8:31:41 AM PDT by Salman
Boeing's Starliner spacecraft took a road trip Tuesday before its May 6 liftoff, moving from the Kennedy Space Center to the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Starliner boarded a transporter at the Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility at Kennedy Space Center on Monday. Final checks were completed Tuesday for the short trip to the United Launch Alliance's Vertical Integration Facility at the Space Force station.
"The Atlas V will receive its precious cargo today as the Boeing Space Starliner spacecraft is transported to ULA's Vertical Integration Facility and lifted onto the rocket," ULA said on X.
Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams, the first passengers, posed in front of it.
"Big day for NASA," Wilmore said, according to Florida Today. "Big day for Boeing as we get over to the rocket and mate these things together."
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Another Boeing Starliner spacecraft failure coming ?
I think we know what to expect. Failure has a face and Boeing is wearing it.
Hope the door doesn’t fall off...................
I hope it’s not made with Carbon Reinforced Acrylic Polymer like their airplanes also known as CRAP.
The thrusters corrode themselves when they get wet or something weird like that
Boeing ain’t no SpaceX. The DEI engineers are going to step on their Johnsons again.
Hope the pax can breathe vacuum.
And then there is the problem of the astronuts who say, "It's Boeing, I ain't going."
I hope the door plug doesn’t pop out on the Starliner.... : )
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