The US space agency, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa), has reported that the Boeing CST-100 Starliner crewed space craft and its launch rocket, a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V, have been fully assembled at ULA’s Vertical Integration Facility (VIF) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, in the state of Florida. The Starliner is currently scheduled to be launched by the Atlas V on July 30. This flight will be the Starliner’s second uncrewed demonstration test flight. This second such flight was made necessary by the failure of the first one, in December 2019, to meet all its required objectives. This resulted in a number of modifications being made to the Starliner, mainly regarding its software.
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