Starliner’s first commander: Don’t expect perfection on crew test flight

Enlarge / Technicians at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida prepare Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft for fueling.Boeing

HOUSTON—While it doesn’t have the same relevance to public consciousness as safety problems with commercial airliners, a successful test flight of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft in May would be welcome news for the beleaguered aerospace company.

This will be the first time the Starliner capsule flies into low-Earth orbit with humans aboard. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are in the final stages of training for the so-called Crew Flight Test (CFT), a milestone running seven years behind the schedule Boeing said it could achieve

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