A mural depicting on The Boeing Company’s newly named CST-100 Starliner commercial crew transportation spacecraft is installed on the company’s Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility, or C3PF, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The artwork on the facility’s front wall was completed just in time to greet NASA and Boeing managers, VIPs and invited guests for the grand opening. For 20 years, the facility served as a shuttle processing hangar and main engine shop. With the high bay of the C3PF expected to be complete in December 2015, engineers are building the structural test article for the Starliner in the remodeled engine shop. The test version of the spacecraft will be put through a continuum of tests culminating with a pad abort test in 2017.
Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett