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    NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test Astronauts Suiting Up

    NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are being outfitted in their Boeing spacesuits inside the crew suit-up room at the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida as preparations continue for the agency’s Boeing Crew Flight Test. The Boeing Starliner suits are specifically tailored for tonight’s …

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    NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test Astronauts Suiting Up

    NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are being outfitted in their Boeing spacesuits inside the crew suit-up room at the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida as preparations continue for the agency’s Boeing Crew Flight Test. The Boeing Starliner suits are specifically tailored for tonight’s …

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    Watch Live: NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test Coverage Underway

    NASA’s coverage of the agency’s Boeing Crew Flight Test is underway on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA app, YouTube, and the agency’s website. Learn how to stream NASA TV through a variety of platforms including social media. For the first time, Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft will send two of the agency’s astronauts to the International Space …

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    Watch Live: NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test Coverage Underway

    NASA’s coverage of the agency’s Boeing Crew Flight Test is underway on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA app, YouTube, and the agency’s website. Learn how to stream NASA TV through a variety of platforms including social media. For the first time, Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft will send two of the agency’s astronauts to the International Space …

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    NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test: Atlas V Fueling Underway

    Image of Boeing Starliner spacecraft on top United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket

    Following a poll for fueling by NASA, Boeing, and United Launch Alliance, the Atlas V rocket now is being filled with liquid oxygen in the first stage and a combination of liquid oxygen and hydrogen in the Centaur upper stage. RP-1, a rocket-grade kerosene, was loaded into the first stage previously. The rocket will launch …

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    NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test: Atlas V Fueling Underway

    Image of Boeing Starliner spacecraft on top United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket

    Following a poll for fueling by NASA, Boeing, and United Launch Alliance, the Atlas V rocket now is being filled with liquid oxygen in the first stage and a combination of liquid oxygen and hydrogen in the Centaur upper stage. RP-1, a rocket-grade kerosene, was loaded into the first stage previously. The rocket will launch …

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    Expedition 71 Prepares to Welcome Boeing’s Starliner Crew

    Boeing's Starliner spacecraft sits atop the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

    It was a light duty day aboard the International Space Station for four Expedition 71 astronauts as they await the launch and arrival of Boeing’s Crew Flight Test. The orbital outpost’s three cosmonauts had their day full as they kept up lab maintenance and researched a variety of microgravity phenomena. NASA Flight Engineers Tracy C. …

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    Weather 95% ‘Go’ for NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test

    NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams stand in front of a red convertible with the ULA Atlas V rocket and Boeing Starliner spacecraft on the launch pad in the background

    Weather is looking promising for NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test to send two of the agency’s astronauts to the International Space Station. Launch weather officers with the U.S. Space Force’s 45th Weather Squadron predict a 95% chance of favorable weather conditions at the launch pad for a liftoff, scheduled for 10:34 p.m. EDT. Boeing’s Starliner …

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    Weather 95% ‘Go’ for NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test

    Weather is looking promising for NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test to send two of the agency’s astronauts to the International Space Station. Launch weather officers with the U.S. Space Force’s 45th Weather Squadron predict a 95% chance of favorable weather conditions at the launch pad for a liftoff, scheduled for 10:34 p.m. EDT. Boeing’s Starliner …

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    Return of the GEDI: Space Station Instrument Returns to Forest Monitoring

    NASA Insignia

    That’s no moon, that’s a space station! The return of NASA’s GEDI (Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation) is underway, as the agency’s very own “lightsaber” will soon be back to measuring forests in three dimensions after it was reinstalled on the International Space Station April 22. Measuring distances with similar principles as sonar, a lidar instrument uses light …

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