20 October 2021
Humidity likely cause of stuck Starliner valves say Boeing, as OFT-2 postponed until first half of 2022
... status of Boeing's CST-100 Starliner spacecraft yesterday, officials at the company confirmed that the next launch attempt of its second uncrewed Orbital Flight Test (OFT-2) will not happen until sometime in the first half of 2022. The CST-100 had...
23 December 2019
Starliner lands successfully despite problems during inaugural flight
... systems Completed a positive command uplink between the International Space Station and Starliner “Today’s successful landing of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft is a testament to the women and men who have dedicated themselves to ensuring...
20 December 2019
Trouble for Starliner's inaugural flight as burn maneouver fails
... launch today, the anticipated inaugural launch of Boeing's new Starliner capsule has run into trouble in orbit shortly after blast off. At 6:36 a.m. EST (1136 GMT) this morning, the reusable CST-100 Starliner capsule launched atop the United Launch...
04 August 2018
First NASA Commercial Crew revealed
... spacecraft were announced by NASA on Friday. The selected astronauts are set to fly to low Earth orbit in Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX’s Crew Dragon vehicles as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. Following the retirement of the...
22 May 2020
Countdown to SpaceX’s historic Crew Dragon launch
... a way of attempting to seed this sector of the commercial industry. NASA chose capsule designs from SpaceX and Boeing — Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner — at the time. This Crew Dragon test flight, called Demo-2 and required for NASA’s human certification...
23 December 2019
New launch target for SpaceX abort test
... of Crew Dragon and one other capsule design, Boeing’s CTS-100 Starliner, under the Commercial Crew Program. Both capsules are...Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Meanwhile, Starliner took off 20 December, 2019 on its first uncrewed...
