Mission Updates

After a cross-country journey through six U.S. states, the CST-100 Starliner arrived at Boeing’s Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 8. Starliner’s homecoming is the culmination of the spacecraft spending six days in space, autonomously docked with the International Space Station (ISS) for the first time, as […]

After a successful uncrewed flight test, Starliner’s reusable crew module heads to the factory for re-flight prep. Starliner is on the move again, crossing six states on its way back to Florida from where it landed in New Mexico. With the “Rosie the Rocketeer” anthropometric test device in the commander seat, the CST-100 Starliner capsule […]

With the NASA-Boeing Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) now complete and the CST-100 Starliner having achieved all flight test objectives, the team’s focus and attention now turns to the future. The next time Starliner flies, it will be carrying crew to and from the International Space Station, so every part of the flight test has been […]

At 6:49 p.m. ET, Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft landed at its designated landing zone at the White Sands Space Harbor on the U.S. Army’s White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. Starliner completed all of its deorbit, reentry and landing maneuvers, bringing Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) to a successful conclusion. Recovery teams are commencing their […]

At 2:36 p.m. ET, Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station (ISS). Starliner is in the process of its departure maneuvers, which include the outbound fly around maneuver, exiting the ISS’s keep out sphere (KOS) and conducting a departure burn and then exiting the approach ellipsoid (AE). A weather briefing held an […]

  With the intravehicular activity (IVA) hatch closed and leak checks now complete, Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner is in a good configuration to return home on May 25. Expedition 67 crew members Kjell Lindgren and Bob Hines closed the IVA hatch on Starliner at 3:00 p.m. ET in preparation for undocking. During a farewell ceremony, the […]