NASA, Boeing to Host Media Briefing, Provide Starliner Update

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	March 27, 2023  MEDIA ADVISORY M23-036 NASA, Boeing to Host Media Briefing, Provide Starliner Update 52647409385_0e66e2334e_o.jpeg Inside Boeing’s Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Jan. 19, 2023, the Starliner team works to finalize the mate of the crew module and new service module for NASA's Boeing Crew Flight Test that will take NASA astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita “Suni” Williams to and from the International Space Station. Credits: Boeing/John Grant NASA and Boeing will host a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT Wednesday, March 29, to provide an update on the Crew Flight Test (CFT) of the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station. Managers will share a mission status and discuss upcoming milestones ahead of Starliner's first flight with astronauts prior to certifying the spacecraft and systems for regular crew rotation flights to the space station for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. Audio coverage of the teleconference will livestream on the agency’s website. The briefing participants are: Steve Stich, manager, NASA’s Commercial Crew Program Joel Montalbano, manager, NASA’s International Space Station Program Mark Nappi, vice president and program manager, CST-100 Starliner, Boeing To participate in the call, media must RSVP no later than one hour prior to the start of the event to: ksc-newsroom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx. The Starliner spacecraft will launch on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The demonstration flight will carry two NASA astronaut test pilots, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, and will prove the end-to-end capabilities of the Starliner system. Find out more about the Commercial Crew Program at: https://www.nasa.gov/commercialcrew -end-
	Press Contacts Josh Finch / Lora Bleacher Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 joshua.a.finch@xxxxxxxx / lora.v.bleacher@xxxxxxxx Brittney Thorpe / Heather Scott Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 brittney.thorpe@xxxxxxxx / heather.l.scott@xxxxxxxx Leah Cheshier / Sandra Jones Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 leah.d.cheshier@xxxxxxxx / sandra.p.jones@xxxxxxxx
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