Sunday, December 22, 2019

1st Boeing Starliner Reaches Pad for Dec 20 Test Flight to Space Station


Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft atop ULA Atlas V standing vertical after roll out from the Vertical Integration Facility to Cape Canaveral Launch Complex-41 for the OFT mission targeting launch on Dec. 20, 2019. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com/spaceupclose.com

18 December 2019


Ken Kremer – For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM 

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER/CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL – The 1st commercial Starliner astronaut space taxi reached the launch pad this morning, Wednesday, Dec 18, and is poised for liftoff of the human-rated spaceships readiness for the critical uncrewed Orbital Flight Test (OFT) demonstration journey to space on Friday morning Dec. 20 that will pave the way to human missions with NASA astronauts by mid-2020, if all goes well.

Read the entire story at Space UpClose:
https://www.spaceupclose.com/2019/12/1st-boeing-starliner-reaches-pad-for-dec-20-test-flight-to-space-station/

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