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Starliner delayed again! NASA gives up...
Starliner delay again!

A mere fortnight ago, I informed you about the positive development that the Boeing Starliner is all set to take off with astronauts on board for the first time next month.
Alas, despite the hopeful news, the spacecraft appears to be plagued by a persistent curse, as it has yet again been delayed.
Yes, one again!
In any case, let’s take a look at what is ailing the progress of the Boeing Starliner in today’s episode of Alpha Tech!
I can imagine that it’s quite painful to remember that NASA dumped $4.2 billion of taxpayer money on Boeing to build the spacecraft.
In addition, the agency even paid a $185 million charge to pay for the second setback on the Starliner crew capsule, bringing the company’s out-of-pocket costs on the troubled program to $595 million since 2019.
Everything seemed to be getting better when Boeing recently kept saying they were making good progress to launch in April.
However, at the last minute, NASA just delayed Boeing Starliner's debut crewed voyage. The Starliner mission is now slated to launch after a private astronaut mission scheduled for May "as teams assess readiness and complete verification work" for the spacecraft, NASA's space operations chief Kathy Lueders said on Twitter.
“As always, we will fly when we are ready,” Leuders tweeted.
Steve Stich, head of NASA's Commercial Crew Program, said in an interview with Reuters before the delay was announced that the certification process for the spacecraft had taken "a little longer than we expected" and was "a whole lotta work."
The delay comes as Boeing and NASA performed extra testing on several areas of the spacecraft.
Boeing software engineers are running tests with Starliner's manual flight system used as a backup in case the spacecraft's automated flight software fails, Stich said.
A Boeing spokesman said the focus for that testing is for "added redundancy in cases of emergency."
Deliberations about mission-critical lithium ion batteries and the low chance they overheat while the spacecraft is docked to the station also took more time than expected, Stich added.
Starliner delayed again! NASA gives up...