STP-3 Launch Slips, Allowing Boeing Starliner Reflight To Advance

Boeing technicians install back shells on the Orbital Flight Test-2 Starliner crew module.
Credit: John Proferes/Boeing
CAPE CANAVERAL—NASA and Boeing are now targeting March 25 for the launch of an uncrewed CST-100 Starliner on the Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) to the International Space Station—four days earlier than previously planned. The schedule shift is due to several factors, including a delay in what was to...
Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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