[…] United Launch Alliance (ULA) will return the Atlas V booster from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s storied Space Launch Complex (SLC)-41 to the 30-story Vertical Integration Facility (VIF) on Wednesday to replace a faulty oxygen pressure regulation valve on the Centaur upper stage. The decision to rollback the 172-foot-tall (52.4-meter) stack—topped with Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner crew-carrying spacecraft—has triggered a lengthier delay until no sooner than 6:16 p.m. EDT Friday, 17 May, for the launch of Crew Flight Test (CFT) Commander Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Pilot Suni Williams for their long-awaited mission to the International Space Station (ISS). […]
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