30 July 2021
Starliner OFT-2 launch delayed following problems with Nauka module at ISS
... from today’s launch attempt of the US agency’s Orbital Flight Test-2 mission after Russia’s Nauka module ran into trouble ...ready, the mission, which would have been the second uncrewed flight test of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner as part of the NASA’s ...
05 November 2019
Boeing’s Starliner completes pad abort test for commercial crew
... to demonstrate Boeing’s capability to safely fly crew to and from the space station.” Boeing’s next mission, called Orbital Flight Test, will launch an uncrewed Starliner spacecraft to the station on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Cape...
31 December 2021
Space missions to watch out for in 2022
..., Boeing, along with NASA, are targeting no earlier than May 2022 for the rescheduled second uncrewed Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) of the company's Starliner spacecraft. This will be Boeing's second attempt at reaching the space station after...
23 December 2019
Starliner lands successfully despite problems during inaugural flight
... Harbor in New Mexico, wrapping up the company’s uncrewed Orbital Flight Test as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. Starliner settled... and Launch Jim Chilton. “The Starliner Orbital Flight Test has and will continue to provide incredibly valuable...
March 2018
Zero gravity and the human heart
...1853-4. 4 Bungo MW, and Johnson PC. Cardiovascular examinations and Observations of deconditioning during the Space Shuttle Orbital Flight Test Program. Aviat Space Environ Med. 1983; 54(11):1001-1004. 5 Bungo MW, Charles JB, Riddle J, Roesch J, Wolf...
February 2020
Aeroshells – from LEO to Mars
...aeroshells to achieve a soft landing), and to collect data on the planet’s surface conditions. NASA’s Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test Inflatable Decelerator (LOFTID), planned for 2022, will evaluate a hypersonic inflatable aeroshell technology that might...
