Sunita Williams' 3rd Space Mission Aborted Hours Before Lift Off

<p>Just hours before the launch of the Boeing Starliner, slated to take astronaut Sunita Williams to her third space mission, was aborted today due to a technical glitch. So far, no new date has been announced for the launch.</p> <p>Williams was set to embark on her new space mission on Tuesday from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida at 8.04 am in a brand-new Boeing Starliner spacecraft.</p> <p>However, the launch of the Atlas V rocket was called off just 90 minutes before the lift-off.</p> <p>Following the incident, US space agency NASA announced that the mission was called off due to an issue with a valve in the rocket's secomd stage.</p>

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