First crewed flight of Boeing 1st Starliner postponed to July: NASA

The first crewed flight of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner has been again pushed till July, NASA has announced.

This comes after Boeing and NASA, last month, said Starliner’s astronaut debut, a mission to the International Space Station (ISS) called Crew Flight Test (CFT), was on track to launch in April.

Kathy Lueders, NASA Associate Administrator of Space Operations, last week announced on Twitter that the date has again been pushed to May.

But May liftoff for CFT is now off the table, and liftoff is now targeted for July 21 at the earliest, agency officials announced at a press conference on Tuesday.