Two Navy test pilots who became NASA astronauts will take their ultimate flight Monday as they will be the first to launch on Boeing's Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station.
Two Navy test pilots who became NASA astronauts will take their ultimate flight Monday as they will be the first to launch on Boeing's Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station. More than a decade in the making, the crew test flight with NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore marks the final milestone for Boeing's spacecraft designed to fly humans to and from the space station.
"Boeing's crew test flight comes two years after a crewless Starliner launched to the ISS and returned to Earth during an orbital flight test . Starliner was set to launch Williams and Wilmore last summer, but Boeing managers revealed new issues with the spacecraft after further examining data from Starliner's OFT in May 2022. The OFT in 2022 was a repeat test flight from a botched attempt in 2019 that ended without docking at the ISS.
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