Boeing's starliner capsule returns after 6-day flight to international space station

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The trip marks the third time Boeing attempted to launch its craft into space — an estimated $600 million spent — and paves the way to sending crews onboard future flights.

May 28, 2022, 7:03 AM

“We have had an excellent flight test of a complex system that we expected to learn from along the way and we have,” Mark Nappi, vice president and program manager of Boeing Commercial Crew Program, said in theSome of the functions the space capsule demonstrated were its autonomous software and on-orbit operations of various systems, ability to receive commands from the space station, cargo transfer, and battery charging.

The aerospace company signed a contract with NASA in 2014 to build spacecraft that astronauts could board to the ISS.

 

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