NASA, Boeing to Provide Update on Starliner’s Orbital Flight Test-2

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	August 12, 2021  MEDIA ADVISORY M21-095 NASA, Boeing to Provide Update on Starliner’s Orbital Flight Test-2   A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft aboard is seen on the launch pad at Space Launch Complex 41 ahead of the Orbital Flight Test-2 mission, Monday, Aug. 2, 2021 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Credits: NASA/Joel Kowsky NASA and Boeing are continuing discussions on the status of the Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) mission, and will host a joint media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 13, to discuss the second uncrewed flight of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station, as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. Participants in the briefing will be: Kathryn Lueders, NASA associate administrator for human exploration and operations Steve Stich, manager of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program John Vollmer, vice president and program manager of Boeing’s Commercial Crew Program Audio of the teleconference will livestream online at:  https://www.nasa.gov/live To participate in the teleconference, media must contact the newsroom at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at: ksc-newsroom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx by 12 p.m. for the dial-in information. The OFT-2 mission will launch Starliner on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. After launch, Starliner will dock to the space station before returning to Earth in the western United States as part of an end-to-end test flight to prove the system is ready to fly with crew aboard. Learn more about NASA’s Commercial Crew Program at: http://www.nasa.gov/commercialcrew -end-
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