Prelaunch operations proceed forward of NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Check launch. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are prepared, and the Boeing Starliner spacecraft, connected on the ULA (United Launch Alliance) Atlas V rocket, rolled out to the launch pad at House Launch Advanced-41 at Cape Canaveral House Drive Station in Florida on Might 30.
NASA, Boeing, and ULA will maintain a prelaunch briefing at 1 p.m. EDT, Might 31, to reply questions from the media forward of liftoff.
The briefing members embrace:
- NASA Affiliate Administrator Jim Free
- Steve Stich, supervisor, NASA’s Industrial Crew Program
- Dana Weigel, supervisor, NASA’s Worldwide House Station Program
- NASA astronaut Mike Fincke
- Mark Nappi, vp and program supervisor, Boeing Industrial Crew Program, Boeing
- Gary Wentz, vp, Authorities and Industrial Packages, ULA
- Mark Burger, launch climate officer, forty fifth Climate Squadron, Cape Canaveral House Drive Station
Protection of the briefing will air dwell on NASA+, NASA Tv, the NASA app, YouTube, and the company’s website. Learn to stream NASA TV by way of a wide range of platforms together with social media.
Launch of the ULA Atlas V rocket and Boeing Starliner spacecraft is focused for 12:25 p.m. June 1. Starliner will carry Wilmore and Williams on a 25-hour journey to the Worldwide House Station earlier than docking to the forward-facing port of the orbiting laboratory’s Concord module.
