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The inaugural flight of Boeing's CST-100 Starliner went awry Friday morning when the spacecraft failed to achieve its correct orbit, cancelling its planned trip to the International Space Station. Not only was this the first test flight of Boeing’s ship, but it was a major step in NASA'...
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Assuming CFT's Starliner and the astronauts return on time in late May, Boeing is ready to jump immediately into the Starliner-1's preparation. "We've already started working those requirements and schedules so that when the vehicle gets back at the end of May, we'll be ready to hit the...
Starliner’s first crewed test flight has plenty of implications for Boeing, NASA, and U.S. ambitions in space more broadly. On the commercial side, failure could deal a blow to the aerospace giant, which is under contract for six NASA service missions following the flight. The company also...
The launch of Boeing’s Starliner Crew Flight Test (CFT) tomorrow (Monday) is hands-down the BIG EVENT this week. But there’s lots of other good stuff going on, too, including the annual Humans to Mars Summit and the first meeting of the NASA Advisory Council in almost a year and a...
While SpaceX uses the boss’ Teslas to get astronauts to the launch pad, Boeing has a more traditional “astrovan.” One big difference at flight’s end: Starliner lands on the ground with cushioning airbags, while Dragon splashes into the sea. THE FUTURE Boeing is committed to six ...
The crew of the upcoming Boeing Starliner Crew Flight Test, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, will speak with the press on Friday in one of three Starliner briefings that day. There’s SO much more going on this week and we really have to bring this to a close, but we ...
Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner crew ship approaches the International Space Station on May 20, 2022, on the company’s Orbital Flight Test-2 mission before automatically docking to the Harmony module’s forward port. The orbiting lab was flying 268 miles above the south Pacific at the time of ...
And Boeing's Starliner capsule recently embarked on its first-ever crewed flight, a test mission that sent two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS). Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos' aerospace company, are human-spaceflight players as well, though they operate ...