SpaceX launched 59 small payloads aboard a Falcon 9 rocket Wednesday just one minute before Boeing's Starliner crew capsule undocked from the International Space Station, setting up a landing in New Mexico to close out a successful unpiloted test flight.
In a busy day for America's space industry, SpaceX launched 59 small payloads aboard a Falcon 9 rocket Wednesday just one minute before Boeing's Starliner crew capsule undocked from the International Space Station and flew itself to a picture-perfect landing in New Mexico to close out a successful unpiloted test flight.
Boeing's unpiloted Starliner astronaut ferry ship descends to an on-target touchdown at White Sands, New Mexico, to close out a six-day test flight.It was a welcome moment for Boeing, more than two years after the Starliner's initial test flight in December 2019 suffered embarrassing software and communications glitches that prevented rendezvous and docking with the space station. An attempted reflight in August 2021 was scrubbed due to corroded propulsion system valves.
When the space shuttle Columbia broke apart during re-entry in 2003, NASA was unable to launch astronauts for two-and-a-half years and was forced to buy seats on Russian Soyuz spacecraft until the shuttle returned to flight.
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