By Micah Maidenberg

Boeing Co. and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said they now are targeting an uncrewed test launch of the Starliner space capsule in May.

The company and NASA decided to postpone the demonstration flight this past summer after valves on the Starliner, which is ultimately meant to fly astronauts to the International Space Station and back, became stuck.

Boeing said it now plans to fly another Starliner vehicle for the uncrewed test flight while it continues to analyze what happened with the valves used in the Starliner vehicle that couldn't fly this summer.

Write to Micah Maidenberg at micah.maidenberg@wsj.com

(END) Dow Jones Newswires

December 13, 2021 20:22 ET (01:22 GMT)

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