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Topic:	[Discuss] Boeing Starliner Crew Flight Test

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Your Reply: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	[QUOTE]Originally posted by Robert Pearlman: [B]NASA is waiting until after the second Starliner orbital flight test (OFT-2) to decide on the CFT crew. Per Kathy Lueders, NASA's Associate Administrator for the Space Operations Mission Directorate: <BLOCKQUOTE>[i]We'll be looking at final CFT and PCM-1 timelines this summer and then we'll be making final crew selections for all for the increments coming up.[/i]</BLOCKQUOTE> The prior crew assignments were set aside after the OFT-2 launched was delayed last year, said astronaut Butch Wilmore. <BLOCKQUOTE>[i]Since that time in August, the three of us [Wilmore, Mike Fincke and Suni Williams] have been working as a cadre supporting Starliner and we know that we are not necessarily assigned for CFT and we've known that since that timeframe. The powers that be could assign anyone they want. We hope they pick one of us three or a couple of us three to go on CFT — we've been working the program — but we've known since that time that we've been working as a cadre. [/i]</BLOCKQUOTE> Lueders said that it has not been decided yet if CFT will fly with two or three astronauts or how long the flight will be. Those decisions rely in part on when the mission will fly and the crew contingent on the space station at the time. She did say, however, that they are not looking at flying a Boeing company astronaut on CFT, only NASA astronauts. [i][b]Below[/b]: NASA astronauts Sunita Williams, Mike Fincke and Barry "Butch" Wilmore at the launch pad on May 18, 2022, before Boeing's Orbital Flight Test-2 mission to the International Space Station.[/i] (Boeing/John Grant) <center><a href="http://www.collectspace.com/review/boeing_starliner_oft2_astronauts01-lg.jpg" target="AirLock"><img src="http://www.collectspace.com/review/boeing_starliner_oft2_astronauts01.jpg" width="400" height="600" border="0"></a></center>[/B][/QUOTE]
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