June 14, 2024
MEDIA ADVISORY: M24-083
NASA, Boeing to Discuss Starlinerâs Mission
Boeingâs Starliner spacecraft docked to the Harmony module of the International Space Station on the companyâs Orbital Flight Test-2 mission
(Credits: NASA)
NASA and Boeing will discuss Starlinerâs mission and departure from the International Space Station as
part of the agencyâs Boeing Crew Flight Test in a pre-departure media teleconference at 12 p.m. EDT Tuesday, 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 spacecraftâs departure from the orbiting laboratory.
Participants in the news conference include:
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Steve Stich, manager, NASAâs Commercial Crew Program
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Dana Weigel, manager, NASAâs International Space Station Program
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Mike Lammers, flight director, NASAâs Johnson Space Center in Houston
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Mark Nappi, vice president and program manager, Commercial Crew Program, Boeing
Media interested in participating must contact the NASA Johnson newsroom no later than 10 a.m., June 18,
at 281-483-5111 or jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov.
To ask questions, media must dial into the teleconference no later than 15 minutes before the start of the event.
Audio of the teleconference will stream live on NASAâs website at:
https://nasa.gov/nasatv
As part of NASAâs 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 stationâs
Harmony module at 1:34 p.m., June 6.
For NASAâs blog and more information about the mission, visit:
https://www.nasa.gov/commercialcrew
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