Flight Readiness Review Begins for Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner system

Boeing CST-100 Starliner Spacecraft. Credit score: NASA

Groups from NASA and Boeing gathered immediately (Wednesday, Might 11) for the Flight Readiness Evaluation on the company’s Kennedy House Middle in Florida in preparation for NASA Boeing’s uncrewed Orbital Flight Take a look at-2 (OFT-2) for the company’s Industrial Crew Program.

The overview is an in-depth evaluation of the readiness of flight for Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner system, mission operations, help features, and readiness of the house station program to help the uncrewed flight to the Worldwide House Station. Kathryn Lueders, affiliate administrator for House Operations at NASA Headquarters, is main the assembly. The senior Boeing official on the overview is Mark Nappi, vice chairman and program supervisor for Boeing’s Industrial Crew Program. The assembly will conclude with a ballot of all members of the overview board.

Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft rolled out from the corporate’s Industrial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy House Middle in Florida on Might 4, 2022. The spacecraft made the journey to the Vertical Integration Facility at House Launch Advanced-41 at Cape Canaveral House Drive Station the place it was secured atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket for Boeing’s second Orbital Flight Take a look at (OFT-2) to the Worldwide House Station for NASA’s Industrial Crew Program. Credit score: NASA/Ben Smegelsky

Starliner is focused to launch at 6:54 p.m. EDT on Thursday, Might 19, on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from House Launch Advanced-41 at Cape Canaveral House Drive Station in Florida to rendezvous and dock with the orbiting laboratory. The flight check will present helpful information for NASA to certify Boeing’s crew transportation system for normal flights with astronauts to and from the house station.