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NASA's Boeing Starliner to make first trip with crew members to International Space Station. Mt. Juliet hometown hero: Astronaut Barry Wilmore on faith and 'leaving the planet,' again Skip to main ...
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore & Suni Williams will fly aboard Boeing Starliner spacecraft and a ULA Atlas V rocket to the International Space Station.
Once the Starliner achieves NASA certification, the initial contract required Boeing to conduct at least two, and as many as six, crewed missions to the space station. [33] NASA's William H. Gerstenmaier had considered the Starliner proposal as stronger than the Crew Dragon and Sierra Nevada's Dream Chaser spacecraft. [34]
Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Sunita "Suni" Williams are set to test Starliner's manual controls before it docks with the International Space Station (ISS) in orbit on Thursday. Both will be arriving ...
Shortly after 11:00 UTC, Commander Hobaugh and Pilot Wilmore talked with CBS News, FOXNews Radio and Nashville's WTVG-TV. At 12:28 UTC, Melvin and Satcher were interviewed by the Tom Joyner Morning Show and at 21:33 UTC, Hobaugh, Melvin and Satcher talked with ESPN's SportCenter , Black Entertainment Television News and WRIC-TV in Richmond ...
On April 18, 2022, NASA said that it had not finalized which of the cadre of Starliner astronauts, including Barry Wilmore, Fincke, and Sunita Williams, would actually fly on the CFT mission or the first operational Starliner mission. [6] On June 16, 2022, NASA confirmed that CFT would be a two-person flight test, consisting of Wilmore and ...
NASA astronaut Christina Koch holds the record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman (328 days), returning on February 6, 2020. [36] During Expedition 61, she surpassed NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson's 289 days from 2016-17. In third place is American astronaut Anne McClain with 204 days. [39]
NASA astronauts Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Sunita "Suni" Williams were only meant to spend little more than a week in orbit in June before riding the Starliner capsule down to Earth in a parachute ...