Beleaguered Boeing’s Starliner returns early from failed mission
Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft lifts off from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, USA, on December 20, 2019. The uncrewed orbital flight test is the Starliner's maiden mission to the International Space Station on Nasa’s commercial crew programme. – EPA/Nasa pic, December 21, 2019.
BOEING’S Starliner spacecraft won’t achieve its mission objective of docking with the International Space Station, Nasa said yesterday, dealing a blow to the agency’s plans to end US dependence on Russian rockets for astronaut taxi rides. Officials said the autonomously flown capsule experienced a glitch involving its onboard clock that led it to burn too much propellant, forcing an early return to Earth on Sunday morning.
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