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Weather conditions are 90% favorable for launch, weather officer says.
Boeing ’s Starliner is expected to lift off atop an Atlas V rocket at 12:25 p.m. ET on Saturday .
Two veteran NASA astronauts will be the first woman to fly aboard such a mission.
If successful, the flight would mark only the sixth inaugural journey of a crewed spacecraft in US history.
Mission teams monitored the helium leak, and so far, no issues have been reported.
Engineers also spotted a “design vulnerability” in the propulsion system.
NASA and Boeing have since worked with the vendor of the thruster to come up with a backup plan.
The space station experienced an anomaly on Wednesday that Starliner could help fix.
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