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    NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test Launch Milestones

    An image of Boeing Starliner spacecraft aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas Vrocket

    In less than four hours, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are set to lift off at 12:25 p.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’s Astronauts Suit Up for Boeing Crew Flight Test Launch

    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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    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.  For the first time in history, Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft will send two of the agency’s astronauts to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. Butch Wilmore, commander, and …

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    Cargo Craft Docks to Station, Completes Space Delivery

    The Progress 88 cargo craft approaches the space station carrying about three tons of cargo. Credit: NASA TV

    The unpiloted Progress 88 spacecraft arrived at the space-facing port of the orbiting laboratory’s Poisk module at 7:43 a.m. EDT on June 1. The spacecraft launched at 5:43 a.m. EDT (2:43 p.m. Baikonur time) May 30, on a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The spacecraft delivers about three tons of food, fuel, …

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    Cargo Craft Docking Soon to Station Live on NASA TV

    The Roscosmos Progress 88 spacecraft carrying about three tons of cargo lifts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on May 30. Credit: NASA TV

    NASA is now providing coverage of rendezvous and docking on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA app, YouTube, and the agency’s website. The unpiloted Progress 88 spacecraft launched at 5:43 a.m. EDT (2:43 p.m. Baikonur time) May 30, on a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. After a two-day in-orbit journey to the station, …

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