Boeing Starliner

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Starliner was launched June 5 on an anticipated nine-day flight test.

Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner will remain at the International Space Station (ISS) while a new ground campaign begins to test thrusters.

Breakup of the RESURS-P1 satellite into an estimated 100 pieces of trackable debris occurred at about 12 p.m. EDT June 26.

NASA and Boeing have once again extended the stay of the CST-100 Starliner’s Crew Flight Test (CFT) at the International Space Station.

NASA and Boeing plan to add at least four days to the ongoing CST-100 Starliner Crew Flight Test.

The NASA spacewalk outside the International Space Station that was postponed on June 13 has been rescheduled for June 24.

It will take some luck for Boeing to be ready to fly its first ISS crew rotation mission as early as February.

NASA called off an International Space Station spacewalk just before the two astronauts were to depart their airlock, due to a spacesuit discomfort issue.

Launched June 5, Starliner docked to the ISS a day later.

Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner with two NASA astronauts managed a delayed docking to the International Space Station on June 6.

Two NASA astronauts lifted off from Cape Canaveral SFS on June 5 for a shakedown cruise of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft.

ULA has resolved a ground support system problem that scotched a June 1 launch attempt of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft aboard an Atlas V rocket.

A second attempt to launch two astronauts on a shakedown cruise of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft was called off 3 min. 50 sec. before liftoff on June 1.

Starliner is due to spend at least eight days at the International Space Station for a shakedown .

NASA has cleared Boeing and United Launch Alliance (ULA) to proceed with a June 1 launch attempt of the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft.

The issue was found as part of a wider assessment of the Starliner propulsion system.

NASA and Boeing are working toward a June 1 launch of the CST-100 Starliner Crew Flight Test.

Launch of a Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft on its first crewed flight has been postponed again to allow more time to review a helium leak issue.

The leak initially appeared during the countdown for launch of the Starliner Crew Flight Test on May 6.

The leak was noted during Starliner’s initial launch attempt on May 6.

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams will remain at Kennedy Space Center while ULA repairs their ride to space, the first Atlas V to launch crew.

The long-awaited flight was scrubbed to address an issue with an oxygen relief value in the upper stage of the spacecraft’s Atlas V launch vehicle.

It’s been a big year for United Launch Alliance, the Lockheed Martin- and Boeing-owned joint venture that has been remaking itself for the commercial space age.

The long-awaited crewed debut of Boeing’s Starliner caps off a 13-year effort to certify multiple commercial providers of low-Earth-orbit astronaut transport.