Boeing sending first astronaut crew to space after years of delay

Item 1 of 2 NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams pose ahead of the launch of Boeing's Starliner-1 Crew Flight Test , in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., April 25, 2024. REUTERS/Joe Skipper/File PhotoNASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams pose ahead of the launch of Boeing's Starliner-1 Crew Flight Test , in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., April 25, 2024.

Williams, 58, is a former Naval test pilot with experience flying over 30 different aircraft, and has logged 322 days in space over two missions since her first flight in 2007. Wilmore, 61, a retired Navy captain, has logged 178 days in space since his first of two space missions in 2009. That mission reshaped Boeing's decades-old relationship with NASA and marked the first of many more high-profile issues the company would encounter with Starliner, which is on a fixed-price contract for development and scheduled to fly six NASA astronaut missions once certified as safe for flight.

NASA officials have doubled their oversight of Starliner since the 2019 failure and argue that Boeing's experience building and maintaining modules on the ISS should be a confidence booster.

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