05 November 2019
Boeing’s Starliner completes pad abort test for commercial crew
...unlikely event of an emergency prior to liftoff. This was Boeing’s first flight test with Starliner as part of NASA’s ...abort,” said John Mulholland, Vice President and Program Manager, Boeing’s Commercial Crew Program. “Our teams across the program ...
June 2020
Astrovan II - your ride to space is here
...not for a call, in early 2018, from Boeing. When Boeing was awarded the Commercial Crew Transportation Capability (CCtCap) ... ‘Ride to Space’ tagline - the Astrovan II waits outside Boeing’s Starliner factory as a reminder of what’s coming back to Cape...
10 February 2020
Two critical software defects plagued Starliner test flight
..., a joint investigation team consisting of NASA and Boeing officials was established in January tasked with examining the...bump back into it," Jim Chilton, senior vice president for Boeing Space and Launch, said during the teleconference, adding that ...
04 August 2018
First NASA Commercial Crew revealed
... astronauts are set to fly to low Earth orbit in Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX’s Crew Dragon vehicles as part... human spaceflight systems. Then in 2014 NASA announced that Boeing and SpaceX would share $6.8 billion to develop transport systems...
20 December 2019
Trouble for Starliner's inaugural flight as burn maneouver fails
... rumble." However, just half an hour into the flight, Boeing reported that the capsule's insertion into orbit was not normal....of special sensors that once analysed, can inform NASA and Boeing about how Starliner's journey to and from space will likely...
30 July 2021
Starliner OFT-2 launch delayed following problems with Nauka module at ISS
... the US space agency said in statement yesterday. Starliner is Boeing's crew spacecraft designed to shuttle astronauts to and from the ...to protect the uncrewed spacecraft during ascent. NASA and Boeing will be hoping for a successful mission as the ...
