NASA Approves Dec. 20 Liftoff for 1st Starliner Test Flight to Space Station

Up Close view of 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. 19, 2019. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com/spaceupclose.com

13 December 2019

Ken Kremer –  For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM 

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER/CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL – The combined NASA, Boeing, ULA team unanimously approved Dec. 20 as the date for liftoff of the history making 1^st commercial Starliner test flight to the International Space Station from the Florida Space Coast – giving the “GO” after a “thorough and comprehensive” review of the human-rated spaceships readiness for the critical uncrewed Orbital Flight Test (OFT) demonstration journey to space that will pave the way to human missions with NASA astronauts by mid-2020, if all goes well.

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