The first Starliner team is ready to fly on May 6, the team told reporters upon arrival at the launch site. This will be the spacecraft’s first project with humans on board.
The two NASA astronauts who will fly aboard the Boeing Starliner, Commander Barry “Butch” Wilmore and pilot Suni Williams, arrived (April 25) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) near Orlando, Florida, for their historic launch. Being the first humans to fly on Starliner, the astronauts (both former U. S. Navy control pilots) were able to fly in Starliner. U. S. Department of T they will also be the first to board United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) Atlas V rocket.
This mission to the International Space Station (ISS), known as the Crew Flight Test, was delayed for about 4 years due to various problems with Starliner, which Wilmore and Williams continually under pressure were supposed to do for a long time. But there will actually be new things to deal with. Its roughly week-long verification mission will emerge, Wilmore told reporters.
“Do we expect everything to go perfectly? This is the first human flight [with] the spacecraft. I’m sure we’ll go through to locate him,” Wilmore said in remarks broadcast live on NASA TV, minutes after arriving at the Williams spacecraft. runway of a two-seater T-38 aircraft used for training. “That’s why we’re doing this. This is a verification flight. So when you do a check, you’ll be waiting to locate things. We’ll be waiting to locate things. “
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Williams praised Boeing and NASA’s running shoes for incorporating “lessons learned” from two previous uncrewed flight tests with Starliner as he prepared procedures for the astronaut’s first flight and tested those procedures in simulators.
“The other day they threw the kitchen sink at us in a simulation, and we did well,” Williams said. “So I have confidence in each and every one of them not only in our roles, in the roles of the spacecraft, but also in our project team is in a position to take on the challenge. They’re in a position to take it on. “
Boeing, along with SpaceX, was tasked through NASA in 2014 with sending advertising equipment projects to the ISS. (NASA used to send the maximum of its astronauts there on the space shuttle and temporarily switched entirely to the Russian Soyuz spacecraft between the shuttle’s retirement in 2011 and SpaceX’s. )first team project in 2020. )
Boeing’s advertising team’s contract for Starliner is valued at $4. 2 billion, compared to SpaceX’s $2. 6 billion. But while SpaceX has sent 11 teams to the ISS aboard the Crew Dragon, Starliner is four years behind schedule due to technical issues.
Starliner’s first uncrewed flight to the ISS in 2019 was unsuccessful at its destination. After implementing dozens of fixes, Starliner’s second flight to the ISS (also without astronauts) made the circular in 2022. However, Starliner’s first crewed spaceflight was delayed. 2023, after more problems were discovered on the spacecraft, with its main parachutes (the suspension lines carried less load than engineers thought) and wiring (largely covered with P213 flammable tape).
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The team went into quarantine on Tuesday, April 23 at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, about a week after their last visit to KSC on April 16 to watch Starliner go on a 10-kilometer adventure between buildings that will be incorporated into the Atlas. V. Engineers check communications between the rocket and spacecraft before the stacked rocket launches toward the KSC 41 launch pad.
A soft readiness review is underway this week through NASA and Boeing officials, and a news convention is expected later that day around 4:30 p. m. EDT (2030 GMT) to be broadcast here on Space. com. NASA’s Commercial Crew Program gave the green light to the CFT release on April 18, following a soft test readiness test, officials wrote on X (formerly Twitter).
If the CFT’s flight goes according to plan, the first operational project (Starliner-1) is expected to fly in early 2025 at the earliest, with a duration of six months. Aboard Starliner-1 will be NASA’s Scott Tingle, NASA astronaut Mike Fincke and the Canadian Space Agency’s Joshua Kutryk. If successful, Boeing will sign up with SpaceX and Russia, which sends some NASA astronauts to the ISS for technical and political reasons, to supply normal area station crews for semi-annual general rotations.
This story was updated at four o’clock in the afternoon. WBS with a new schedule for the Flight Readiness Review Conference.
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