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Astronaut access arm raised into place for Boeing Starliner missions [i]The boarding ramp for Boeing's new commercial spacecraft is now in place — 16 stories above the ground. The crew access arm was lifted by a crane and bolted onto the gantry tower at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Launch Complex 41 (LC-41) in Florida on Monday morning (Aug. 15). The 90,000-pound (40,800 kilogram) arm was mounted at the tower's 172-foot (52 m) level, where it will line up with the entry hatch to Boeing's CST-100 Starliner capsule atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. As soon as 2018, astronauts launching to the International Space Station will walk the length of the 50-foot (15 m) crew access arm and enter the white room at its end to ingress the Starliner.[/i]
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