Coverage of docking and hatch opening will air live on NASA Television, the NASA app, and the agency’s website. After a successful docking, the crew of Expedition 67 will open Starliner’s hatch about 11:45 a.m. Starliner is scheduled to dock to the forward port of the station’s Harmony module about 7:10 p.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on May 19, 2022. Following an orbital insertion burn 31 minutes later, Starliner was on its way for a rendezvous and docking with the space station.Ī United Launch Alliance Atlas V carrying Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner for Orbital Flight Test-2 lifts off at 6:54 p.m. PDT) from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Starliner lifted off on NASA’s Boeing Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) at 6:54 p.m.
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Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflettīoeing’s CST-100 Starliner is in orbit, heading for the International Space Station (ISS) following the launch today (May 19, 2022) of the next-generation spacecraft on a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket on a mission designed to test the end-to-end capabilities of the crew-capable system as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. The flight test is designed to test the system’s end-to-end capabilities for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program providing valuable data for NASA certifying Boeing’s crew transportation system for regular crewed flights to and from the International Space Station.
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Starliner is expected to arrive at the space station for docking about 24 hours later with more than 500 pounds of NASA cargo. A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket lifts off on May 19, 2022, from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida for NASA Boeing’s uncrewed Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) for the agency’s Commercial Crew Program.