NASA, Boeing Still Working Towards July Starliner Launch Written 30 May 2023
Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft mounted atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. | Credit: Frank Michaux; NASA
Space News reported that NASA and The Boeing Company say they are “still working towards a July launch of the CST-100 Starliner on a crewed test flight despite ‘emerging issues’ and concerns raised by a safety panel.” The two organizations say they have completed a “checkpoint review” for preparations for the Crew Flight Test missions, which is scheduled for no earlier than July 21. Two NASA astronauts, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, “will fly on CFT to the International Space Station on the short test flight, the first crewed flight of the spacecraft.”
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