07:26 AM EDT, 06/03/2024 (MT Newswires) -- NASA said on Sunday that its Boeing ( BA ) Crew Flight Test mission teams are preparing for a launch of the Starliner spacecraft on June 5 after an attempt on Saturday was scrubbed following a technical issue.

The agency said that the mission managers have opted for the next launch attempt on Wednesday with NASA astronauts Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Suni Williams. It is due to take place at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida for a mission of about a week to the International Space Station. Another opportunity is available at 10:29 a.m., Thursday, June 6, the agency added.

Technicians and engineers with United Launch Alliance assessed the ground support equipment at the launch pad that encountered issues during the countdown and scrubbed the June 1 launch attempt, NASA said.

The United Launch Alliance team identified an issue with a single ground power supply within one of the three redundant chassis that provides power to a subset of computer cards controlling various system functions. On Sunday, the chassis containing the faulty ground power unit was removed, visually inspected, and replaced with a spare chassis, NASA said.

The agency said that a full failure analysis of the power unit will be performed to better understand the root cause. Meanwhile, it said that United Launch Alliance has completed functional checkouts of the new chassis and the cards, and "all hardware is performing normally".

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