Flight Readiness Review Begins for Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner system

Boeing CST-100 Starliner Spacecraft. Credit: NASA

Teams from NASA and Boeing gathered today (Wednesday, May 11) for the Flight Readiness Review at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in preparation for NASA Boeing’s uncrewed Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) for the agency’s Commercial Crew Program.

The review is an in-depth assessment of the readiness of flight for Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner system, mission operations, support functions, and readiness of the space station program to support the uncrewed flight to the International Space Station. Kathryn Lueders, associate administrator for Space Operations at NASA Headquarters, is leading the meeting. The senior Boeing official at the review is Mark Nappi, vice president and program manager for Boeing’s Commercial Crew Program. The meeting will conclude with a poll of all members of the review board.

Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner Spacecraft Rolled Out — Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft rolled out from the company’s Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 4, 2022. The spacecraft made the trip to the Vertical Integration Facility at Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station where it was secured atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket for Boeing’s second Orbital Flight Test (OFT-2) to the International Space Station for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. Credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky

Starliner is targeted to launch at 6:54 p.m. EDT on Thursday, May 19, on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida to rendezvous and dock with the orbiting laboratory. The flight test will provide valuable data for NASA to certify Boeing’s crew transportation system for regular flights with astronauts to and from the space station.

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Flight Readiness Review Begins for Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner system

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