December 23, 2024

NASA Astronauts Gear Up for Boeing Starliner’s Groundbreaking Test Flight

NASA, Boeing, and ULA (United Launch Alliance) just recently completed a start-to-finish objective gown rehearsal on April 26, for the upcoming Crew Flight Test.The objective will launch NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, leader, and Suni Williams, pilot, on Boeings Starliner on a ULA Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. From left to right, NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore pose for photos at the Launch and Landing Facility at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida following their arrival for the agencys Boeing Crew Flight Test. After loading out Building at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida and convoyed to the Vertical Integration Facility at close-by Cape Canaveral to run through countdown treatments with the integrated Atlas V rocket and Starliner stack.The crew will invest about a week at the orbiting lab before the crew capsule returns to Earth, making a parachute and airbag-assisted landing in the southwestern United States.After successful conclusion of the mission, NASA will begin the last procedure of licensing Starliner and its systems for crew rotation missions to the space station.