June 28, 2024 Issue

In Focus

Space Debut

Cape Canaveral, Florida: NASA’s Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore leave the Kennedy Space Center on June 5 to board the CST-100 Starliner—Boeing’s first time sending astronauts into space. The capsule docked at the International Space Station, where the pair will spend a week, 26 hours after launch, Boeing said. It came despite thruster issues and helium leaks, which officials said did not endanger the crew, the Associated Press reported.
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