Boeing and NASA on Saturday postponed the first crewed flight of the company’s long-delayed space taxi, halting the countdown less than four minutes before liftoff due to a problem with the launch pad’s computer system.
The CST-100 Starliner’s flight from Florida to the International Space Station is a crucial test to prove the spacecraft can safely transport people to and from the orbiting research laboratory for NASA.
A launch pad sequencer that controls vital systems during the final countdown caused the abort, the latest setback for a launch effort years in the making. NASA said it was abandoning a possible launch on Sunday to give the agency, United Launch Alliance and Boeing time to determine what went wrong.
