) launched its new astronaut capsule on Friday on an unmanned debut journey to the International Space Station, but the capsule had not yet reached the orbit required for it to get to the station, the company said.
The U.S. space agency NASA said the spacecraft was currently in a stable position but not in its “planned orbit”. The spacecraft, a cone-shaped pod with seven astronaut seats, blasted off from Cape Canaveral at 6:36 a.m. atop an Atlas V rocket from Boeing-Lockheed Martin Corp’s United Launch Alliance.
Both Boeing and NASA said that while the capsule had not reached the intended orbit it was in a stable position. Boeing was awarded $4.2 billion and Elon Musk’s SpaceX $2.5 billion by the U.S. space agency in 2014 to develop separate capsule systems capable of ferrying astronauts to the space station from American soil for the first time since the U.S. Space Shuttle was retired from service in 2011.
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