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WASHINGTON: Boe­ing’s new Starliner capsule and an inaugural two-member Nasa crew safely docked with the Internatio­nal Space Station on Thursday, meeting a key test in proving the vessel’s flight-worthiness and sharpening Boeing’s competition with Elon Musk’s. The rendezvous was achieved despite an earlier loss of several guidance-control jet thrusters, some of them due to a helium propulsion leak, which Nasa …

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