Refresh
1st Starliner astronauts end costume rehearsal earlier than Might 6 launch
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams completed an enormous costume rehearsal earlier than their historic launch upon Boeing Starliner no sooner than Might 6, company officers stated Friday (April 26) hours after the rehearsal completed.
“Wilmore and Williams accomplished a collection of launch day milestones together with suiting up, working in a flight deck simulator, and working the identical software program that might be used in the course of the launch,” NASA officials wrote in a weblog put up on Friday (April 26).
The rehearsal befell at NASA’s Kennedy Area Middle in Orlando, Florida and included a countdown process with the Starliner spacecraft, which is on prime of the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket that may carry it to the Worldwide Area Station (ISS).
The one-week Crew Flight Check handed its newest flight readiness evaluate with NASA on Thursday (April 25). CFT, the primary Starliner mission with astronauts, goals to certify the spacecraft for six-month missions to the ISS that will begin as quickly as 2025. Learn extra about Starliner being “go for launch” right here at Area.com.
Starliner astronauts arrive at launch website
The 2 NASA astronauts who will fly on Boeing’s first crewed Starliner spacecraft have arrived on the Kennedy Area Middle in Florida to arrange for his or her historic launch to the Worldwide Area Station on Might 6.
Boeing Starliner Crew Flight Check commander Butch Wilmore and pilot Sunita Williams landed their NASA T-38 supersonic jet on the area middle’s Launch and Touchdown Facility after a brief flight from Houston’s Ellington Discipline close to the Johnson Area Middle.
The astronauts will launch to the ISS on Boeing’s Starliner and an Atlas V rocket from Area Launch Advanced 41 on the Cape Canaveral Area Power Station close to KSC. Their one-week mission to the ISS is a last shakedown cruise for Boeing’s Starliner to show it’s prepared for operational NASA crew flights. On the finish of the mission, Starliner will parachute to Earth and make a land-based touchdown within the southwestern United States.
