Boeing crew capsule returning to Earth after aborted flight.
Boeing sends Starliner passenger rocket into spaceCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Boeing aimed to bring its Starliner crew capsule back to Earth on Sunday to end its first test flight, a mission cut short by an improperly set clock on the spacecraft.
Flight controllers worked toward a predawn touchdown in the New Mexico desert, the original landing site but six days earlier than expected. Boeing and NASA teams were in place at the Army's White Sands Missile Range, after rushing there from Florida following liftoff. Jim Chilton, a senior vice president for Boeing, said Saturday that the timing problem in the Starliner's automated system has since been corrected and that the re-entry and landing systems have checked out well. For unknown reasons, the Starliner's clock did not sync up properly with the timing on the Atlas V rocket that launched the capsule.
The capsule is healthy and performing well now, Chilton assured reporters."But make no mistake, We still have something to prove here on entry," he said.
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