NASA announces new launch date for Boeing's Starliner astronaut-crewed mission

NASA announced the new target launch date for the first astronaut-crewed flight into space aboard Boeing's Starliner after several delays.

The first flight will attempt to launch on Saturday, June 1, at 12:25 p.m. ET, with backup dates set for June 2

It comes after the launch of Starliner was delayed several times. The crewed flight test was tentatively scheduled for May 6

United Launch Alliance (ULA), which manufactures and operates the rockets that launch spacecraft into orbit.

A new launch date had been set for May 25, but a small helium leak was discovered in the service module

There has been a great deal of exceptional analysis and testing over the last two weeks by the joint NASA

t has been important that we take our time to understand all the complexities of each issue

The Starliner is designed to carry a seven-person crew, but aboard the "test drive" launch will be NASA astronauts Barry Wilmore

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