This launch, scheduled to take place six minutes before 2 a.m. Israel time, arrives two and a half years late: Boeing originally planned, and even promised NASA, to reach the International Space Station in the second half of 2019. In that year, the company did launch the spacecraft. Its Starliner, but had to return it to Earth immediately after launch without reaching the space station, after malfunctions were discovered in its software that endangered it and the space station staff if it approached it. Of the spacecraft are “stuck” and pose – again – a mission danger.
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Now that it has repaired everything it needs to repair in its spacecraft, Boeing plans to launch it onto ULA’s huge Atlas 5 missile, which has about 227 kilograms of cargo in its capsule, including an astronaut doll named Rosie, which will be a kind of “crash test doll” “Before sending astronauts to the space station on top of the spacecraft with future launches. The spacecraft will anchor at the station for about five days, during which the astronauts at the station will enter and test its systems, and at the end will load about 272 kg of cargo, including the oxygen tank. .