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Topic: [Discuss] Boeing CST-100 Starliner CFT mission
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Robert Pearlman
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From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 04-03-2019 09:28 AM
   
Please use this topic to discuss Boeing's CST-100 Starliner Crew Flight Test (CFT) mission to the International Space Station. |
issman1
Member Posts: 1026
From: UK
Registered: Apr 2005
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posted 04-03-2019 11:05 AM
Now it's clear why Soyuz MS-16 will launch with two Russian cosmonauts and a Japanese astronaut in March/April 2020. The other USOS crew will launch on the first manned Starliner right around January. |
carmelo
Member Posts: 1037
From: Messina, Sicilia, Italia
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted 04-11-2019 09:30 AM
Any news about Ferguson? He is still in the crew for the first flight of Starliner? |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42167
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 04-11-2019 10:03 AM
Yes, Chris Ferguson is still a member of the Starliner crew test, along with Mike Fincke and Nicole Mann. The three are undergoing training for the mission, as these photos show.  Above: Boeing astronaut Chris Ferguson helps NASA astronauts Nicole Mann (left) and Mike Fincke (right) train for a spacewalk inside the International Space Station Airlock Mockup at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston in February.  Above: Boeing astronaut and CST-100 Starliner Crew Flight Test crew member Chris Ferguson trains for a contingency water landing in NASA's Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.  Above: NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Boeing astronaut Chris Ferguson review International Space Station training at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.
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Member Posts: 828
From: Streamwood, IL USA
Registered: Feb 2012
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posted 07-27-2019 01:59 PM
What is the next milestone that Boeing needs to meet on the way to its first CFT mission? |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42167
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 07-27-2019 02:30 PM
I believe the next milestone is roll out of the vehicle and integration with the Atlas (the timing of which hinges on the launch of AEHF 5).I apologize, I misread the question to be about the Orbital Flight Test (OFT). The next milestones for the Crewed Flight Test (CFT) are the OFT and pad abort test, both of which are slated for September. |
oly
Member Posts: 836
From: Perth, Western Australia
Registered: Apr 2015
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posted 07-28-2019 02:03 AM
Have any details been made public regarding the steps taken to man-rate the Atlas V rocket?
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Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42167
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 07-28-2019 08:21 AM
Most of the human-rating process is comprised of system reviews and paperwork documentation. Modifications to the vehicle have included adding redundancy to some of the critical systems and configuring the Atlas to recognize and respond to anomalies more quickly, with regard to triggering the Starliner abort system. |
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