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>NEW YORK, August 25. /TASS/. The first manned flight of the Boeing Starliner spacecraft may take place in summer 2021, while the second - in winter that year, the company’s representative Josh Barrett told TASS Tuesday.

>"We are making excellent progress toward launching our second uncrewed flight test by the end of this year or in early January, pending the completion of upcoming milestones on both the software development and test hardware production efforts," he said. "After a successful [second unmanned flight], Boeing and NASA will fly Starliner’s first crewed mission, the Crew Flight Test, in the summer of 2021, with the first post-certification mission, Starliner-1, tentatively scheduled for the following winter."