Giant US aerospace and defence group Boeing has suffered another delay with its element of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (Nasa’s) Commercial Crew Programme (CCP). Nasa announced that the launch attempt planned for Wednesday had been scrubbed and that the spacecraft would be returned to the Vertical Integration Facility (VIF), because of unexpected system errors. The CCP was created by Nasa to allow it to get out of routine Earth-to-orbit ‘space taxi’ operations and concentrate on developing and operating ‘deep space’ crewed spacecraft, dedicated to exploration, under the Artemis programme. Routine Earth-to-orbit – particularly to the International Space Station (ISS) – and back missions would be provided as services by commercial companies.
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