Boeing Starliner's First Crewed ISS Docking Attempt Was Waved Off For Thruster Troubleshooting

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The first crewed Boeing Starliner missed out its first docking attempt while mission controllers troubleshoot a thruster issue on the spacecraft.   Credit: NASA

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00:00Looks like you're doing great flying there at the in the whole box. We lost the first

00:05docking window. We're going to still analyzing all the data and getting a

00:11pass to approach for the next docking window.

00:13That call to the crew from Capcom Neil Nagata here in the white flight control

00:32room in Houston, Texas at the Johnson Space Center. We were anticipating the

00:40earliest docking today for 11 15 a.m. Central Time but with that call we will

00:46not be making this first docking window. The second of those windows opens at 12

00:5133 p.m. Central Time. And just so you're aware we deactivated Mustang to help out

00:59main B power margin.

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