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NASA Astronauts Wave to Family, Friends, Head to Launch Pad

By |2024-06-05T07:37:00-04:00June 5th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams walk out of the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building on Wednesday, June 5, 2024, at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Photo credit: NASA Television NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts Butch Wilmore, commander, and Suni Williams, pilot, are suited up [...]

NASA Astronauts Suit Up for Crew Flight Test Launch to Station

By |2024-06-05T07:02:00-04:00June 5th, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

From left, NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore perform checks of their Boeing spacesuits in the crew suit-up room inside the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, June 5, 2024. Photo credit: NASA Television NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni [...]

NASA, Boeing Set for June 5 Crew Flight Test Launch Attempt

By |2024-06-03T17:07:00-04:00June 3rd, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

A ULA (United Launch Alliance) Atlas V rocket with Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft aboard is seen on the launch pad at Space Launch Complex-41 ahead of NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test Saturday, May 4, 2024, at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test is the first launch of the Boeing [...]

NASA, Mission Partners Target June 5 Crew Flight Test Launch

By |2024-06-02T19:12:00-04:00June 2nd, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

A ULA (United Launch Alliance) Atlas V rocket with Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft aboard is seen on the launch pad at Space Launch Complex 41 ahead of NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test Friday, May 31, 2024, at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test is the first launch with astronauts of [...]

NASA, Mission Partners Forgo June 2 Launch of Crew Flight Test

By |2024-06-01T17:24:00-04:00June 1st, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft aboard is seen at sunset on the launch pad at Space Launch Complex 41 ahead of the NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test, Friday, May 31, 2024 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test is the first launch with [...]

Boeing CST-100 Starliner Crew Flight Test (CFT) Launch to the ISS [Live]

By |2024-06-01T16:17:46-04:00June 1st, 2024|Categories: Space Education|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Boeing Crew Flight Test (Boe-CFT) will be the first crewed mission of the Boeing Starliner and the third orbital flight test of the Starliner overall after the two uncrewed orbital flight tests, Boe-OFT and Boe-OFT 2 in 2019 and 2022. The flight was scheduled for liftoff at 2:34 on 7 May UTC (May 6, 2024 [...]

NASA, Mission Partners to Update Media on Starliner Crew Flight Test

By |2024-06-01T13:50:00-04:00June 1st, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft aboard is seen on the launch pad at Space Launch Complex-41 following a scrub of NASA’s, Boeing Crew Flight Test. Photo Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky NASA, Boeing, and ULA (United Launch Alliance) will host a news conference at 3 p.m. EDT to discuss Saturday’s scrubbed [...]

NASA, Boeing Crew Flight Test Launch Scrubs Saturday

By |2024-06-01T12:48:00-04:00June 1st, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft atop the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket is seen on the launch pad of Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Saturday, June 1, 2024. Photo caption: NASA Television NASA, Boeing, and ULA (United Launch Alliance) scrubbed today’s launch opportunity due to the computer ground launch [...]

NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test Access Arm Retracts

By |2024-06-01T12:19:00-04:00June 1st, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Crew access arm retracts at Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Saturday, June 1, 2024. Photo credit: NASA+ We’re just minutes away from liftoff of NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test that will send NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to the International Space Station as part of the agency’s [...]

NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test Hatch Closed, What’s Inside Starliner

By |2024-06-01T11:25:00-04:00June 1st, 2024|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

Boeing teams close the hatch the Starliner spacecraft ahead of launch of NASA, Boeing’s Crew Flight Test on Saturday, June 1, 2024. Photo credit: NASA+ Just one hour remains ahead of liftoff of NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test to the International Space Station. Launch weather officers with the U.S. Space Force’s 45th Weather Squadron predict [...]

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