| March 27, 2023 MEDIA ADVISORY M23-036 NASA, Boeing to Host Media Briefing, Provide Starliner Update
52647409385_0e66e2334e_o.jpeg Inside Boeingâs Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility at NASAâs 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 âButchâ Wilmore and Sunita âSuniâ 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 NASAâs Commercial Crew Program. Audio coverage of the teleconference will livestream on the agencyâsâ¯website. The briefing participants are: - Steve Stich, manager, NASAâs Commercial Crew Program
- Joel Montalbano, manager, NASAâs 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@mail.nasa.gov. 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- |