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

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	October 15, 2021  MEDIA ADVISORY M21-132 NASA, Boeing to Provide Update on Boeing’s Orbital Flight Test-2 nhq202107290019_large.jpeg Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket as it is rolled out of the Vertical Integration Facility to the launch pad at Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Credits: NASA NASA and Boeing will hold a joint teleconference at 2:30 p.m. EDT Tuesday, Oct. 19, to update media on the company’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft. Teams will discuss work on the oxidizer isolation valve issue that was discovered ahead of the planned uncrewed Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) mission to the International Space Station in August. Participants in the briefing will be: Steve Stich, manager of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program John Vollmer, vice president and program manager, Boeing Commercial Crew Program Michelle Parker, chief engineer, Boeing Space and Launch Audio of the teleconference will stream live online at:  https://www.nasa.gov/live To participate in the teleconference, media must contact ksc-newsroom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx by 1:30 p.m. Oct. 19 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. Starliner will dock to the space station before returning to land in the western United States about a week later as part of an end-to-end test flight to prove the system is ready to fly crew. Learn more about NASA’s Commercial Crew Program at: https://www.nasa.gov/commercialcrew -end-
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