Boeing’s first astronaut flight aborted by computer trouble

The first crewed launch of Boeing's Starliner spacecraft has been delayed Saturday afternoon just minutes before liftoff. The spacecraft and its Atlas V rocket were less than 4 minutes away from launching two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station on 1st June, from Cape Canaveral Force Station in Florida when the abort occurred.

A ground launch sequencer computer triggered the automatic abort 3 minutes and 50 seconds before liftoff, but the exact cause is still unclear. Starliner is poised to become just the sixth type of US-built spaceship to fly NASA astronauts, following the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs in the 1960s and 1970s, the Space Shuttle from 1981 to 2011, and SpaceX's Crew Dragon from 2020.