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Boeing CST-100 Starliner Crew Flight Test (CFT) Launch to the ISS [Live]

By |2024-06-01T16:17:46-04:00June 1st, 2024|Categories: Space Education|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Boeing Crew Flight Test (Boe-CFT) will be the first crewed mission of the Boeing Starliner and the third orbital flight test of the Starliner overall after the two uncrewed orbital flight tests, Boe-OFT and Boe-OFT 2 in 2019 and 2022. The flight was scheduled for liftoff at 2:34 on 7 May UTC (May 6, 2024 [...]

NASA, Mission Partners to Update Media on Starliner Crew Flight Test

By |2024-06-01T13:50:00-04:00June 1st, 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 following a scrub of NASA’s, Boeing Crew Flight Test. Photo Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky NASA, Boeing, and ULA (United Launch Alliance) will host a news conference at 3 p.m. EDT to discuss Saturday’s scrubbed [...]

NASA, Boeing Crew Flight Test Launch Scrubs Saturday

By |2024-06-01T12:48:00-04:00June 1st, 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 Saturday, June 1, 2024. Photo caption: NASA Television NASA, Boeing, and ULA (United Launch Alliance) scrubbed today’s launch opportunity due to the computer ground launch [...]

NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test Access Arm Retracts

By |2024-06-01T12:19:00-04:00June 1st, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Crew access arm retracts at Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Saturday, June 1, 2024. Photo credit: NASA+ We’re just minutes away from liftoff of NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test that will send NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to the International Space Station as part of the agency’s [...]

NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test Hatch Closed, What’s Inside Starliner

By |2024-06-01T11:25:00-04:00June 1st, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Boeing teams close the hatch the Starliner spacecraft ahead of launch of NASA, Boeing’s Crew Flight Test on Saturday, June 1, 2024. Photo credit: NASA+ Just one hour remains ahead of liftoff of NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test to the International Space Station. Launch weather officers with the U.S. Space Force’s 45th Weather Squadron predict [...]

NASA’s Boeing Astronauts at Launch Pad

By |2024-06-01T09:41:00-04:00June 1st, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams arrive Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida ahead of liftoff scheduled for 12:25 p.m. ET Saturday, June 1, 2024. Wilmore and Williams are the first to launch aboard Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station as part of [...]

NASA Astronauts Wave to Family, Friends as They Head to Launch Pad

By |2024-06-01T09:12:00-04:00June 1st, 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 Saturday, June 1, 2024, at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The crew members are on their way to load up into Boeing’s Astrovan for the trip to the launch pad [...]

NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test Launch Milestones

By |2024-06-01T08:45:00-04:00June 1st, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft atop the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at sunrise on the launch pad of Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Saturday, June 1, 2024, ahead of NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test. Photo credit: NASA+ In less than four hours, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni [...]

NASA’s Astronauts Suit Up for Boeing Crew Flight Test Launch

By |2024-06-01T08:30:00-04:00June 1st, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams perform checks of their Boeing spacesuits in the crew suit-up room inside the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday, June 1, 2024. Photo credit: NASA+ NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are being [...]

NASA, Mission Partners Ready for Starliner Launch

By |2024-05-31T14:35:00-04:00May 31st, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

NASA and mission partners participate in a prelaunch briefing for NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Friday, May 31, 2024. From left to right at the dais are Derrol Nail, NASA Communications; Jim Free, NASA associate administrator; Steve Stich, manager, NASA’s Commercial Crew Program; Dana Weigel, manager, NASA’s [...]

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