What Actually Happened to the Boeing Rocket Last Night?
What Actually Happened to the Boeing Rocket Last Night?
A malfunctioning valve is not ideal.
The Boeing Starliner spacecraft was set to launch its first crew toward the International Space Station on Monday night. But the company behind the Atlas V rocket that would have gotten them into space, United Launch Alliance (ULA), called it off. This decision, called a scrub, was made because a rocket valve was acting strange.
Things were going well at Space Launch Complex 41 at …