Managers from NASA, Boeing, and ULA (United Launch Alliance) hosted a media teleconference to debate ongoing work forward of sending NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to the Worldwide Area Station as a part of the company’s Boeing Crew Flight Check.
The media occasion offered an replace on a valve ULA changed on the Centaur higher stage of the Atlas V rocket, in addition to a small helium leak within the spacecraft’s service module, and a propulsion system evaluation to grasp potential helium system impacts on some Starliner return situations.
Take heed to a replay of the media teleconference on the agency’s YouTube channel.
Wilmore and Williams are the primary to launch aboard Boeing’s Starliner on an Atlas V rocket. The astronauts will spend a few week on the orbiting laboratory earlier than the crew capsule makes a parachute and airbag-assisted touchdown within the southwestern United States.
The crew stays in quarantine in preparation for the launch. NASA, Boeing, and ULA additionally will take part in a Delta-Company Flight Check Readiness Overview on Wednesday, Could 29, to guage the work carried out because the final launch try on Could 6.
Liftoff is scheduled for 12:25 p.m. Saturday, June 1, from Area Launch Advanced-41 at Cape Canaveral Area Drive Station in Florida. After profitable completion of the flight take a look at, NASA will start the ultimate means of certifying Starliner and its methods for crewed rotation missions to the area station.
Study extra about NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Check by following the mission weblog, the industrial crew weblog, @commercial_crew on X, and commercial crew on Fb.
