Boeing's Starliner space capsule flunks key Nasa test

Unmanned capsule fails to dock with International Space Station after launch. FMTNews NASA

CAPE CANAVERAL: Boeing Co’s new astronaut capsule failed after lift-off on Friday to climb high enough in orbit to reach the International Space Station, cutting short a critical unmanned test mission in the embattled aerospace giant’s race to send humans to the orbital outpost.

The Starliner setback came as Boeing, whose shares dropped 1.6% on the day, sought an engineering and public relations victory in a year punctuated by a corporate crisis over the grounding of its 737 MAX jetliner following two fatal crashes of that aircraft. The spacecraft, a cone-shaped pod with seats for seven astronauts, lifted off from Cape Canaveral at 6.36am atop an Atlas V rocket supplied by Boeing-Lockheed Martin Corp’s United Launch Alliance.

“The challenge here has to do with automation,” Bridenstine said, adding that astronauts on board would have been able to override the system that caused the malfunction.

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