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    NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test Targets No Earlier than Friday, May 10

    Six people sit at a news desk with a large screen behind them with an image of a spacecraft in front of the Earth.

    NASA, Boeing, and ULA (United Launch Alliance) are targeting no earlier than Friday, May 10, for launch of the agency’s Boeing Crew Flight Test to the International Space Station, pending resolution of the technical issue that prevented the May 6 launch attempt. The delay allows teams to complete data analysis on a pressure regulation valve on the …

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    NASA, Boeing to Update Media on Starliner Crew Flight Test Tonight

    NASA, Boeing, and United Launch Alliance will host a news conference at 10:30 p.m. EDT to discuss Monday’s scrubbed launch attempt of the agency’s Crew Flight Test due to a faulty oxygen relief valve observation on the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket Centaur second stage. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams exited the …

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    NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test Scrubbed

    NASA, Boeing, and United Launch Alliance scrubbed the launch opportunity on Monday, May 6 for the agency’s Boeing Crew Flight Test to the International Space Station due to a faulty oxygen relief valve observation on the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket Centaur second stage. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams exited the Starliner …

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    Meet the NASA Boeing Crew Flight Test Astronauts

    NASA's Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts Suni Williams (left) and Butch Wilmore (right) pose for photo ahead of May 6 flight to the International Space Station

    Let’s get to know the two NASA astronauts flying Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft for the first time as part of the agency’s Boeing Crew Flight Test mission. Butch Wilmore is the commander of tonight’s mission. Previously, he was a fighter pilot, U.S. Navy captain, and completed two other spaceflights for Expedition 41 in 2014 and for …

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    NASA’s Boeing Crew Arrives at Launch Site, Climbs into Capsule

    We’re about 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 the …

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    NASA Astronauts Suited Up, Head to Launch Pad

    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 tonight’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 Key Launch Milestones

    In less than four hours, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are set to lift off at 10:34 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 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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    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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