The first Boeing CST-100 Starliner crewed spacecraft mission to the theInternational Space Station(ISS) will now launch in April 2023 instead of February, a NASA blog poststatedThursday (Nov. 3). "The date adjustment deconflicts visiting spacecraft traffic at the space station as NASA and Boei...
Built in partnership with the Boeing Company, ASTROVAN II is the new crew transport vehicle for Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner crew. As part of Boeing’s Commercial Crew program, ASTROVAN II will transport Boeing astronauts from where they suit up in Cape Canaveral, Florida, out to the launch...
WASHINGTON — Boeing confirmed April 2 it willdelay the uncrewed test flightof its commercial crew vehicle, citing a tight schedule and conflicts with another launch. In a statement to SpaceNews, Boeing said the first flight of itsCST-100 Starlinerspacecraft, called the Orbital Flight Test, is ...
Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner, a semireusable vessel to the ISS that has been marred by nearly a decade of delays, will finally make its firstcrewed flight teston Monday, barring any further hiccups. Boeing on Fridayconfirmedthat NASA gave Starliner the “go to proceed.” ...
Years behind schedule, and still with no fully-assembled rocket, Boeing has demonstrated its inability to meet both physical and financial deadlines. And now the latest, the launch of Boeing’s commercial crew module, Starliner, has run into its own problems. the uncrewed test of the Starliner...
John Mulholland, a Boeing vice president who’s program manager for the CST-100 Starliner program, laid out the revised schedule today during a teleconference with journalists. The current plan calls for an uncrewed Starliner capsule, known as Spacecraft 3, to be launched atop a United...
Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner space taxi was moved to its Florida launch complex and set atop its United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket today in preparation for next month’s uncrewed test mission to the International Space Station. Why it matters: NASA is paying billions of dollars to Boeing ...
The company also is bidding on another NASA contract to deliver supplies to the station using an unpiloted version of the CST-100. U.S station resupply missions currently are flown by SpaceX and Orbital Sciences Corp. under contracts totaling $3.5 billion that run through mid 2018. ...
Boeing, NASA, and US Army personnel work around the Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft shortly after it landed from a test flight in White Sands, New Mexico, in December 2019. Bill Ingalls/NASA Make no mistake: Today’s launch is a massive deal for Boeing. The company’s airplane ...
The Starliner will fly on United Launch Alliance's Atlas V rocket, the same kind of rocket needed for the Air Force's critical mission in late June, from the same pad. While the first SpaceX astronauts will visit the space station for a few weeks at most, the Starliner's three-person...