NASA, Boeing to Discuss Starliner’s Mission Departure from International Space Station June 18
By NASA information center // June 16, 2024
NASA & SPACE NEWS
(NASA) – NASA and Boeing will discuss Starliner’s mission and departure from the International Space Station as part of the agency’s Boeing Crew Flight Test in a pre-departure media teleconference at 12:00 p.m. Eastern time on June 18.
NASA, Boeing, and station management teams will evaluate mission requirements and weather conditions at available landing locations in the southwestern U.S. before committing to the spacecraft’s departure from the orbiting laboratory.
Participants in the news conference include:
■ Steve Stich, manager, NASA’s Commercial Crew Program
■ Dana Weigel, manager, NASA’s International Space Station Program
■ Mike Lammers, flight director, NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston
■ Mark Nappi, vice president and program manager, Commercial Crew Program, Boeing
As part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams lifted off at 10:52 a.m., June 5, on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on an end-to-end test of the Starliner system.
The crew docked to the forward-facing port of the station’s Harmony module at 1:34 p.m., June 6.
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