NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test mission teams are preparing to support a launch at 10:52 a.m. EDT Wednesday, June 5, from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on a mission of about a week to the International Space Station. Technicians and engineers with United Launch Alliance (ULA) worked overnight and on Sunday to assess the […]
Mission Updates
NASA, Mission Partners Forgo June 2 Launch of Starliner Crew Flight Test
NASA, Boeing, and ULA (United Launch Alliance) are forgoing a Starliner Crew Flight Test launch attempt Sunday, June 2, to give the team additional time to assess a ground support equipment issue at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex-41 in Florida. Saturday’s launch was to carry NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams […]
NASA, Mission Partners to Update Media on Starliner Crew Flight Test
NASA, Boeing, and ULA (United Launch Alliance) will host a news conference at 3 p.m. EDT to discuss Saturday’s scrubbed launch attempt of the agency’s Crew Flight Test due to an observation of a ground launch sequencer. The system was unsuccessful in verifying the sequencer’s necessary redundancy. NASA will provide news conference coverage on NASA+, NASA […]
Starliner one hour from first crew launch
Countdown proceeding for Boeing’s Crew Flight Test Boeing’s CST-100 is L-1 hour from launching NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to the International Space Station at 12:25 p.m. EDT. The test-pilot crew is strapped into their seats inside Starliner and working with mission operations teams in Houston and Florida to complete final pre-launch procedures. […]
CFT crew in seats, Starliner hatch closed
Starliner progressing towards final countdown ahead of first crew flight At 11:18 a.m. EDT on Saturday, June 1, Boeing engineers and technicians closed the hatch to the CST-100 Starliner after ensuring NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were safely secured in their seats ahead of launch. Mission operators will conduct leak checks on the […]
Starliner powered up for launch
Subsystem experts and engineers at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center activate Starliner ahead of launch, while crew prepares for liftoff Boeing subsystem experts and engineers took their positions on console in Boeing’s Mission Control Center (BMCC) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to power up and activate the Starliner spacecraft ahead of the Crew Flight […]