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A joint NASA–Boeing team spent weeks trying to understand what caused the thrusters to malfunction, conducting ground tests at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico on the Aerojet Rocketdyne thruster that was planned to be used on a future Starliner mission, [107] and working with the astronauts to replicate their testing in space. [108]
Boeing Crew Flight Test (Boe-CFT) was the first crewed mission of the Boeing Starliner capsule. Launched on 5 June 2024, the mission flew a crew of two NASA astronauts, Barry E. Wilmore and Sunita Williams, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station to the International Space Station.
After 12 weeks in space, Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft is finally set to return home from the International Space Station on September 6 — albeit without its two-person crew. NASA finally ...
Boeing is committed to six Starliner trips for NASA after this one, which will take the company to the station’s planned end in 2030. Boeing has said a fifth seat will be available to private ...
Boeing has a $4.3 billion contract with NASA as part of its Commercial Crew Program. Starliner first did an unmanned test flight in 2019, but a software glitch prevented it from making it to the ...
The Boeing Orbital Flight Test-2 (also known as Boe-OFT-2) was a repeat of Boeing's unsuccessful first Orbital Flight Test (Boe-OFT) of its Starliner spacecraft. The uncrewed mission was part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program. [1] OFT-2, using Starliner Spacecraft 2, launched 19 May 2022 and lasted 6 days.
The Starliner has had an often-troubled history since Boeing was awarded a $4.8 billion contract in 2014 to develop a spacecraft capable of making crewed trips to low-Earth orbit.
Boeing Starliner Spacecraft 2 is the first of two active Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft developed and built under NASA's Commercial Crew Program.The spacecraft was originally scheduled to make its maiden flight on Boe-CFT, the first crewed flight test of the Starliner spacecraft, although following the partial failure of the other CST-100 on Boe-OFT which required a repeat uncrewed test ...