The Starliner team is confident the malfunctions won’t prevent the spacecraft from completing its mission.
in Starliner's propulsion system, a problem that took about eight months to address.
At a post-launch press conference on Thursday night, NASA and Boeing experts were quick to congratulate their various teams for the hard work that led to the successful launch.
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