NASA Boeing targeting July for 1st astronaut flight to space from Florida

ORLANDO, Fla. – Boeing’s first launch of astronauts has been delayed again, this time until July. “NASA and Boeing now are targeting no earlier than Friday, July 21, for the agency’s Boeing Crew Flight Test (CFT) to the International Space Station, pending coordination for the U.S Eastern Range availability,” NASA recently posted on its blog. NASA said more time is needed to certify and test the Starliner capsule’s parachute system before the spacecraft blasts off with two test pilots. Additional software testing is also underway. “The goal of CFT is to test the end-to-end capabilities of the Starliner system with…