CNN —Boeing’s Starliner is aiming to launch its crewed maiden voyage Saturday, a mission that has been a decade in the making.
Boeing Crew Flight Test mission goalsAfter reaching orbit, the Starliner crew capsule carrying Wilmore and Williams will separate from the Atlas V rocket and fire its own engines.
Starliner is expected to spend more than 24 hours traveling to the International Space Station, with docking anticipated to occur at 1:50 p.m.
A series of delaysYears of development hang-ups, test flight problems and other costly setbacks have slowed Starliner’s path to the launchpad.
And that’s why we determined that we could go fly with what we have.”During the launch countdown, mission teams will monitor the leak to see whether it increases.
Persons:
CNN —, Mark Burger, SpaceX’s, Bill Nelson, Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, —, ” Nelson, Williams, Joe Skipper, Steve Stich, Wilmore, Stich, SpaceX —, ”, Mark Nappi, Starliner, ” Nappi, Nappi, ” Stich, Dana Weigel, ” Weigel, “, Weigel, Mike Fincke, Butch, Suni, CNN’s Deblina Chakraborty
Organizations:
CNN, Atlas, Cape Canaveral Space Force, 45th Weather Squadron, NASA, Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Boeing, Atlas V, International, SpaceX, United Launch Alliance, NASA’s, Space Station, Wilmore
Locations:
Florida, United States