Starliner docked to iss

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Atlas V and Starliner have left the VIF and are on their way to the pad, GO Atlas V! pic.twitter.com/0xJ0jBGuqv

— Kyle Montgomery (@Kyle_M_Photo) May 4, 2024

Launch is monday.

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Going good. This is what it's supposed to look like.

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Watching top gun maverick on their van ride. It's only like a 10 minute drive.

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scrub  

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Atlas 5 valve repair will delay Starliner's first crewed mission to May 17 at the earliest – Spaceflight Now

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Thanks.
Not sure what to say about this one.  Close to none of it is correct: Not urgent.  Not leaking. Etc.  Remarkable that the particular  person quoted doesn't seem to know how this type of valve works...

— Tory Bruno (@torybruno) May 9, 2024

People are so crazy with this launch. Yes Boeing is having issues and yes starliner is having issues, but ULA has a 100% track record with launches.

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Launch is now scheduled for June 1 after a bunch of smaller delays.

I believe this ties it with the most delayed shuttle scrub. Must be crazy as an astronaut sitting on a rocket preparing to go to space, and then not actually going up for another month.


Not too confident in Starliner actually launching on the first so it'll probably break the shuttle record. No clue what the record is across all rockets, but I figure it has decent odds of breaking that record too. It's pretty rare for a manned rocket to be on the pad fueling and then not launch within a few days.

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7 minutes

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Hold hold hold

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3 minutes!!! It's going to happen today!

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Launch!!!

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A5/Starliner CFT: Apologies for the delay updating; as it turns out, flight controllers have detected two additional helium leaks, one in "top" manifold 1 and the other in "port" manifold 1; that's in additional to the small leak in port manifold 2 that was known before launch;…

— William Harwood (@cbs_spacenews) June 6, 2024

Steve Stich cuts Tory Bruno’s tie after the post-launch press conference to mark ULA’s entry into the “human spaceflight club.” pic.twitter.com/6TmPUvLXMj

— Jeff Foust (@jeff_foust) June 5, 2024

But on the positive side of things, Tory got his tie cut. Congrats to ULA for a mission well done. Perfect launch today.

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Here she comes.