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Boeing's Calamity Capsule gets another shot at the ISS taxi business

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Boeing plans to launch its uncrewed Starliner-1 vehicle in the December 2026 / January 2027 timeframe, with a crewed Starliner-2 flight to follow in 2028.

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offbeat Starliner-1 could fly by January, with astronauts to follow by 2028 if all goes well SpaceX might not be the ISS's only ride after NASA and Boeing claimed that Starliner - aka the aerospace giant's Calamity Capsule - will fly again and carry a crew in 2028. The plan is to launch an uncrewed vehicle, the Starliner-1, in the December 2026 / January 2027 timeframe, and a crewed vehicle, Starliner-2, sometime in 2028. Starliner-1 will ferry cargo to the International Space Station (ISS) and, if all goes well, humans will take their turn on Starliner-2. NASA also intends to exercise options for a fifth and sixth flight to and from the ISS and to get the Vulcan rocket certified for use after the Atlas V, which has launched Starliner to date, is finally phased out. In 2025, NASA pared back the Starliner contract and modified its order from six to four missions. At the time, Boeing was aiming for no earlier than April 2026 for Starliner-1, something that has now slipped to the end of the year and might go beyond. An observer might wonder what the point is of splashing cash on a program that has managed one crewed flight since the contract was awarded in 2014. 2024's flight test ended with an empty capsule returning to Earth after controllers decided multiple failures had made it too risky for humans. The crew, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, had to wait on the ISS for...

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