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 […]
Mission Updates
Starliner Returning to Earth
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 […]
Hatch Closed and Undocking Preps Underway
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 […]
Starliner Prepares to Close Hatch
After four days docked at the International Space Station, Starliner’s hatch will soon be closed as it’s prepared to return back to Earth. The Expedition 67 crew has been floating in and out of Starliner all morning, performing interior closeout work prior to hatch closure planned for 1:55 […]
Docked flight test objectives wrapping up
International Space Station (ISS) astronauts today began unloading Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner cargo and stowing the materials in their places inside the orbiting laboratory. Although astronauts practiced the work on Earth, they will go through some of the best moving experiences available since the cargo bags weigh nothing on orbit. That gives them the ability to […]
Astronauts Open Starliner Hatch to ISS
Floating inside the Harmony module, the crew of the International Space Station (ISS) opened the hatch of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner and moved inside to become the first people to enter the spacecraft on orbit. Starliner docked to the ISS yesterday afternoon to complete a major milestone of the Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) for the uncrewed […]