{"id":268247,"date":"2019-04-05T07:18:30","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T07:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=268247"},"modified":"2019-04-05T07:26:29","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T07:26:29","slug":"boeing-delays-capsules-first-space-test-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/boeing-delays-capsules-first-space-test-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing delays capsule\u2019s first space test flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boeing has delayed from April to August its test flight for its Starliner capsule, intended to carry American astronauts to the International Space Station.<\/p>\n<p>The US space agency NASA blamed the delay on \u201climited launch opportunities\u201d in April and May from Cape Canaveral, Florida.<\/p>\n<p>It noted that the August launch target is a \u201cworking date and to be confirmed.\u201d The Starliner spacecraft, which is in the final phase of ground tests, is set to be launched into space atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.<\/p>\n<p>If the unmanned test goes well, the capsule\u2019s next flight will have three astronauts aboard \u2014 NASA\u2019s Nicole Mann and Mike Fincke, along with Chris Ferguson of Boeing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boeing has delayed from April to August its test flight for its Starliner capsule, intended to carry American astronauts to the International Space Station. The US space agency NASA blamed the delay on \u201climited launch opportunities\u201d in April and May from Cape Canaveral, Florida. It noted that the August launch target is a \u201cworking date and to be confirmed.\u201d The Starliner spacecraft, which is in the final phase of ground tests, is set to be launched into space atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. If the unmanned test goes well, the capsule\u2019s next flight will have three astronauts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[212,130,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}