Meet the astronauts of the 1st crewed mission of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft [Video]

After years of delays and stumbles, Boeing was finally poised to launch astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA and a Massachusetts native was set to pilot the spacecraft.The mission was scrubbed Monday night.Veteran NASA astronaut Suni Williams, a native of Needham, Massachusetts, and namesake of an elementary school, and her crewmate were set to take Boeing’s Starliner capsule for a test flight and a weeklong stay at the ISS.Starliner was scheduled to blast off on United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket 10:34 p.m. Monday from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, but ULA launch director Tom Heter III made the decision to stop launch operations for the night just two hours before scheduled takeoff.The decision to scrub the launch came approximately 25 minutes after Williams boarded the spacecraft.At 9 p.m., NASA announced that the Starliner launch was scrubbed so that teams could evaluate an oxygen relief …