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NASA, Boeing Now Working Toward May 25 Launch of Crew Flight Test

By |2024-05-17T15:40:00-04:00May 17th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft aboard is seen on the launch pad illuminated by spotlights at Space Launch Complex 41 on Sunday, May 5, 2024. Photo Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky NASA, Boeing, and ULA (United Launch Alliance) teams will take additional time to work through spacecraft closeout processes and [...]

NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test Eyes Next Launch Opportunity

By |2024-05-14T12:46:00-04:00May 14th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft aboard is seen as it is rolled out of the Vertical Integration Facility to the launch pad at Space Launch Complex 41 ahead of the NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test, Saturday, May 4, 2024 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Photo [...]

Space Physics Aboard Station as Starliner Crew Returns to Houston

By |2024-05-10T15:48:00-04:00May 10th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

The space station is pictured from the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour during its departure and flyaround on Nov. 8, 2021. Space physics and life support maintenance topped the schedule at the end of the week for the Expedition 71 crew as the Starliner astronauts return to Houston. 3D printing and cargo operations also rounded out [...]

NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test Targets New Launch Date

By |2024-05-07T17:20:00-04:00May 7th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft atop illuminated by spotlights on the launch pad of Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida is photographed ahead of the NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test, the first Starliner mission to send astronauts to the International Space Station as part [...]

NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test Targets No Earlier than Friday, May 10

By |2024-05-07T01:12:00-04:00May 7th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

After the first launch attempt of NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test, a news conference is held on Monday, May 6, 2024 at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. As part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program, the first crewed launch to the International Space Station aboard Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft atop a United Launch Alliance [...]

NASA, Boeing to Update Media on Starliner Crew Flight Test Tonight

By |2024-05-06T22:10:00-04:00May 6th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft aboard is seen on the launch pad at Space Launch Complex-41  on Sunday, May 5, 2024 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Photo Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky NASA, Boeing, and United Launch Alliance will host a news conference at 10:30 p.m. EDT to [...]

NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test Scrubbed

By |2024-05-06T21:20:00-04:00May 6th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft atop the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket is seen on the launch pad of Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Monday, May 6, 2024. Photo credit: NASA NASA, Boeing, and United Launch Alliance scrubbed the launch opportunity on Monday, May 6 for the agency’s Boeing [...]

Meet the NASA Boeing Crew Flight Test Astronauts

By |2024-05-06T20:31:00-04:00May 6th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

The official crew portrait for NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test. Left is Suni Williams, who will serve as the pilot, and to the right is Barry “Butch” Wilmore, spacecraft commander. Let’s get to know the two NASA astronauts flying Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft for the first time as part of the agency’s Boeing Crew Flight Test [...]

NASA’s Boeing Crew Arrives at Launch Site, Climbs into Capsule

By |2024-05-06T20:07:00-04:00May 6th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore climbs into Boeing Starliner capsule. Photo credit: NASA We’re about three hours away from NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams heading to the International Space Station. Wilmore and Williams just arrived at the crew access tower at Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida and will [...]

NASA Astronauts Suited Up, Head to Launch Pad

By |2024-05-06T19:25:00-04:00May 6th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams walk out of the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building on Monday, May 6, 2024, at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Photo credit: NASA NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts Butch Wilmore, commander, and Suni Williams, pilot, are suited up and [...]

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