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    NASA Astronauts, Starliner Inch Closer to Space Station

    The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket booster has separated from the Centaur upper stage carrying Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft. The Centaur will continue to help propel Boeing’s Starliner to a suborbit before the spacecraft boosts itself to orbit, bringing it closer to the International Space Station.  Measuring 10 feet in diameter and 41.5 feet in …

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    NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test ULA Rocket Reaches Max Q

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    A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying Boeing’s Starliner capsule with NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams has reached Max Q. The milestone is the moment of peak aerodynamic pressure on the rocket. Following Max Q will be Atlas V booster engine cutoff and separation. 

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    Liftoff! NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test Heads to Space Station

    We have liftoff! The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket, carrying Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft and NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, commander, and Suni Williams, pilot, are on a course to the International Space Station.  The crew is on a roughly 25.5-hour journey with rendezvous and docking expected at 12:15 p.m. EDT, Thursday, June 6.  The crew …

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    NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test Access Arm Retracts

    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 Commercial Crew Program.  At Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, the crew access arm has retracted on the …

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    NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test Hatch Closed

    Image of Boeing crews close the hatch to the Starliner capsule carrying NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams.

    Just about one hour remains ahead of liftoff of NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test to the International Space Station.  Communication checks with NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are complete. The hatch is now closed on the Boeing Starliner spacecraft, named Calypso. Next up, a series of cabin leak checks and a cabin pressurization …

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    NASA’s Crew Flight Test Astronauts Arrive at Launch Site

    Image of NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore stand near the crew access arm at Space Launch Complex-41 at nearby Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Wednesday, June 5, 2024.

    We’re less than three hours away from NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams heading to the International Space Station.  Wilmore and Williams just arrived at the crew access tower at Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida and will soon head into the White Room. The environmentally controlled chamber at …

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

    image of 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.

    NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts Butch Wilmore, commander, and Suni Williams, pilot, are suited up and on their way to the launch pad for today’s launch. The duo spent about an hour putting on their suits and completing suit leak checks inside the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at the agency’s Kennedy …

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    NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test Launch Milestones

    Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft atop the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket is seen during sunrise on the launch pad of Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Wednesday, June 5, 2024, ahead of NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test. Photo credit: NASA Television

    In less than four hours, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are set to lift off at 10:52 a.m. EDT aboard Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.  As part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program, the mission …

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    NASA Astronauts Suit Up for Crew Flight Test Launch to Station

    Image of NASA astronauts 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. Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore inside

    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 this …

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    Weather 90% ‘Go’ for NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test

    A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft aboard is seen illuminated by spotlights on the launch pad at Space Launch Complex-41 ahead of the NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test, Wednesday, June 5, 2024 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

    Weather is looking beautiful 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 90% chance of favorable weather conditions at the launch pad for a liftoff, scheduled for 10:52 a.m. EDT.  Boeing’s Starliner …

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