04 August 2018
First NASA Commercial Crew revealed
... Ferguson and Nicole Aunabu Mann will be the Starliner test flight astronauts once the Orbital Flight Test has been completed successfully. SpaceX has said that its uncrewed flight test, named Demo-1, will be ready by November this year. Its...
10 February 2020
Two critical software defects plagued Starliner test flight
..., one of which could have had serious connotations for the spaceship during reentry. Following Starliner’s troubled Orbital Flight Test (OFT) mission late last year, a joint investigation team consisting of NASA and Boeing officials was established...
13 August 2021
Stuck valves keep Starliner grounded, August flight now unlikely
..., Starliner vice president and program manager in a statement. Starliner was supposed to embark on its Orbital Flight Test-2 mission at the end of July, but the flight was delayed after Russia’s Nauka module ran into trouble soon after docking...
08 July 2020
NASA increases recommendations required by Boeing for Starliner flight
... steps help us move forward on the path toward resuming our flight tests,” he added. Boeing and NASA have not yet established a launch date for the Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2), but it is unlikely that the company will be able to carry...
20 October 2021
Humidity likely cause of stuck Starliner valves say Boeing, as OFT-2 postponed until first half of 2022
... 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 been...
13 December 2019
Starliner spacecraft could fly as early as next week
... is looking good,” he said. Those open issues include a NASA verification of data showing the Starliner for the Orbital Flight Test matches Boeing’s design and “mission data load,” which will be loaded into the capsule’s computer Tuesday...
