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NASA Sets Coverage, Invites Public to Virtually Join Starliner Launch
Editor’s Note: This advisory was updated on July 16 to correct the time and date by which media must contact the Kennedy newsroom to particpate in the July 27 Prelaunch News Conference. NASA will provide coverage of the upcoming prelaunch, launch, and docking activities for the agency’s Boeing Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) mission to the International Space Station. Scheduled to launch at…
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NASA, Boeing Announce Crew Changes for Starliner Crew Flight Test
Veteran NASA astronaut Barry “Butch” Wilmore will join astronauts Mike Fincke and Nicole Mann for NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test, the inaugural crewed flight of the CST-100 Starliner launching to the International Space Station in 2021. Wilmore will take the place of Boeing astronaut Chris Ferguson on the flight test as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. Ferguson decided not to fly for personal reasons. Wilmore…
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NASA Astronaut Jeanette Epps Joins First Operational Boeing Crew Mission to Space Station
Photo Date: September 30, 2009 Location: Bldg. 8, Room 272 Photo Studio Subject: Official Astronaut portrait of Jeanette Epps Photographer: Robert Markowitz NASA has assigned astronaut Jeanette Epps to NASA’s Boeing Starliner-1 mission, the first operational crewed flight of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft on a mission to the International Space Station. Epps will join NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Josh Cassada for a six-month expedition…
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NASA, Boeing to Provide Outcome of Starliner Orbital Flight Test Reviews
NASA and Boeing will host a media teleconference at 11 a.m. EST Friday, March 6, to discuss the outcome of the joint independent review team investigation into the primary issues detected during the company’s uncrewed Orbital Flight Test in December as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. Participants in the briefing will be: Douglas Loverro, associate administrator of NASA’s Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate Jim Chilton, senior…
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NASA, Boeing to Provide Update on Starliner Orbital Flight Test Reviews
NASA and Boeing will host a media teleconference at 3:30 p.m. EST Friday, Feb. 7, to discuss the status of the joint independent review team investigation into the primary issues detected during the company’s uncrewed Orbital Flight Test in December as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. Participants in the briefing will be: NASA Administrator Jim BridenstineJim Chilton, senior vice president, Boeing Space and LaunchDouglas…
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NASA, Boeing Complete Successful Landing of Starliner Flight Test
Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft completed the first land touchdown of a human-rated capsule in U.S. history Sunday at White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico, wrapping up the company’s uncrewed Orbital Flight Test as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. Starliner settled gently onto its airbags at 7:58 a.m. EST (5:58 a.m. MST) in a pre-dawn landing that helps set the…
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NASA Television to Air Boeing Starliner Spacecraft Landing
NASA and Boeing will provide live coverage of the landing on Sunday, Dec. 22, of the company’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft, on return from its Orbital Flight Test for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. Starliner will execute a deorbit burn at 7:23 a.m. EST to begin its return to Earth, headed for a parachute-assisted landing at 7:57 a.m. at White Sands Space Harbor…
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NASA, Boeing to Provide Update on Starliner Orbital Flight Test Status
NASA and Boeing will host a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EST Saturday, Dec. 21, to discuss the status of the Boeing Orbital Flight Test, and the test objectives that have been, and are expected to be, accomplished related to NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. Audio of the teleconference will stream live online at: NASA Live The uncrewed Boeing Starliner spacecraft…
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ULA and Boeing have a successful launch of Starliner
UPDATE: It appear that the Starliner suffered a malfunction and used extra fuel ment to get the spacecraft to the ISS shortly after this post. We will update you when we hear what Boeing decides to do next. At 6:36 AM EST ULA and Boeing had a successful launch of the new Starliner Crew Capsule on it’s way to the…
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Boeing’s Starliner Completes Pad Abort Test for Commercial Crew
Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft completed a critical safety milestone on Monday in an end-to-end test of its abort system. The Pad Abort Test took place at Launch Complex 32 at the U.S. Army’s White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The test was designed to verify each of Starliner’s systems will function not only separately, but in concert, to protect…
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