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Boeing’s Starliner capsule, carrying a pair of NASA astronauts, docked with the International Space Station Thursday, completing the first leg of an important test flight after several of its thrusters went offline, forcing a dramatic, last-minute scramble to troubleshoot the issue.
Traveling some 240 miles above Earth, the autonomous spacecraft slowly nestled in to one of the orbiting laboratory’s docking ports as the two vehicles whizzed around Earth at some 17,500 m.p.h. The docking came at 1:34 p.m., more than an hour later than expected while NASA and Boeing worked to get the thrusters back online.
Starliner lifted off Wednesday at 10:52 a.m. from Cape Canaveral, Fla., atop an Atlas V rocket, carrying NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore. Several hours after reaching orbit, ground controllers noticed two helium leaks in the spacecraft’s propulsion system that were in addition to an earlier leak that crews had been troubleshooting in the weeks leading up to the launch but decided did not pose a risk.