NASA, Boeing to Hold Media Update on Starliner Progress

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	August 11, 2022  MEDIA ADVISORY M22-111 NASA, Boeing to Hold Media Update on Starliner Progress 52095126237_fbd29c54e7_k.jpeg Boeing's CST-100 Starliner crew ship approaches the International Space Station on the company's Orbital Flight Test-2 mission before automatically docking to the Harmony module's forward port. The orbiting lab was flying 268 miles above the south Pacific at the time of this photograph was taken on May 20, 2022. Credits: NASA NASA and Boeing will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT Thursday, Aug. 25, to provide an update on the agency’s Boeing Crew Flight Test (CFT) to the International Space Station – the first flight with astronauts on the company’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft. Leadership on the call also will discuss data reviews from Boeing’s uncrewed Orbital Flight Test-2 to the space station, which successfully completed in May 2022. The briefing participants are: Kathryn Lueders, associate administrator, NASA’s Space Operations Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters Steve Stich, manager, NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Mark Nappi, vice president and program manager, CST-100 Starliner, Boeing To participate in the call, media must RSVP to: ksc-newsroom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx no later than one hour prior to the start of the event. Audio of the teleconference will livestream on NASA’s website. CFT will demonstrate the ability of Starliner and the United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket to safely carry astronauts to and from the International Space Station. NASA will fly two astronaut test pilots, Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Suni Williams, on the flight test to the space station, where they will live and work off the Earth for about two weeks. Following a successful test flight with astronauts, NASA will begin the final process of certifying the Starliner spacecraft and systems for regular crew rotation flights to the space station. Find out more about NASA’s Commercial Crew Program at: https://www.nasa.gov/commercialcrew -end-
	Press Contacts Joshua Finch / Lora Bleacher Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 joshua.a.finch@xxxxxxxx / lora.v.bleacher@xxxxxxxx Brittney Thorpe / Jennifer Wolfinger Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 brittney.thorpe@xxxxxxxx / jennifer.wolfinger@xxxxxxxx Sandra Jordan Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 sandra.p.jones@xxxxxxxx
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