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NASA, Boeing to Hold Media Update on Starliner Progress

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Aug 11, 2022
MEDIA ADVISORYM22-111
Boeing's CST-100 Starliner crew ship approaches the International Space Station on the company's Orbital Flight Test-2 mission before automatically docking to the Harmony module's forward port.
Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner crew ship approaches the International Space Station on the company’s Orbital Flight Test-2 mission before automatically docking to the Harmony module’s forward port. The orbiting lab was flying 268 miles above the south Pacific at the time of this photograph was taken on May 20, 2022.
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Editor’s Note: This advisory was updated on Aug. 18 to update the list of briefing participants.

NASA and Boeing will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT Thursday, Aug. 25, to provide an update on the agency’s Boeing Crew Flight Test (CFT) to the International Space Station – the first flight with astronauts on the company’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft.

Leadership on the call also will discuss data reviews from Boeing’s uncrewed Orbital Flight Test-2 to the space station, which successfully completed in May 2022.

The briefing participants are:

  • Kathryn Lueders, associate administrator, NASA’s Space Operations Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters
  • Steve Stich, manager, NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, NASA’s Kennedy Space Center
  • Mark Nappi, vice president and program manager, CST-100 Starliner, Boeing
  • Joel Montalbano, manager, NASA’s International Space Station Program, NASA’s Johnson Space Center

To participate in the call, media must RSVP to: ksc-newsroom@mail.nasa.gov no later than one hour prior to the start of the event. Audio of the teleconference will livestream on NASA’s website.

CFT will demonstrate the ability of Starliner and the United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket to safely carry astronauts to and from the International Space Station. NASA will fly two astronaut test pilots, Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Suni Williams, on the flight test to the space station, where they will live and work off the Earth for about two weeks.

Following a successful test flight with astronauts, NASA will begin the final process of certifying the Starliner spacecraft and systems for regular crew rotation flights to the space station.

Find out more about NASA’s Commercial Crew Program at:

https://www.nasa.gov/commercialcrew

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Joshua Finch / Lora Bleacher
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100
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Brittney Thorpe / Jennifer Wolfinger
Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
321-867-2468
brittney.thorpe@nasa.gov / jennifer.wolfinger@nasa.gov

Sandra Jones
Johnson Space Center, Houston
281-483-5111
sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov

Joshua Finch / Lora Bleacher
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100
joshua.a.finch@nasa.gov / lora.v.bleacher@nasa.gov
Brittney Thorpe / Jennifer Wolfinger
Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
321-867-2468
brittney.thorpe@nasa.gov / jennifer.wolfinger@nasa.gov
Sandra Jones
Johnson Space Center, Houston
281-483-5111
sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov