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Topic: [Discuss] Boeing Starliner Crew Flight Test
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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. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 44785
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 04-11-2019 10:03 AM
Chris Ferguson, Mike Fincke and Nicole Mann 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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oly
Member Posts: 1104
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: 44785
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. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 44785
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 12-06-2019 01:57 PM
NASA released a crew portrait: From left to right, NASA astronaut Mike Fincke, Boeing astronaut Chris Ferguson, and NASA astronaut Nicole Mann pose for the official crew portrait for Boeing's Crew Flight Test to the International Space Station, part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program.  |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 44785
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 08-28-2020 01:42 PM
From a NASA update: After a successful OFT-2, Boeing and NASA will fly Starliner’s first crewed mission, the Crew Flight Test, currently targeted for no earlier than June 2021.Recently, the CFT crew helped test software updates with real flight hardware in Boeing’s Avionics and Software Integration Lab in Houston. They practiced performing manual separation events for several low likelihood contingencies, demonstrating the software improvements had no adverse effect on controls needed to stay safe in any situation. The crew also participated in procedural dry runs for future life support tests with the Starliner spacecraft in Florida. Later this year, the CFT crew will be suited inside the spacecraft with the vehicle providing all of their life support. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 44785
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 10-07-2020 10:10 AM
Butch Wilmore is replacing Chris Ferguson on Boeing's Starliner Crew Flight Test. Ferguson, who stepped aside for personal reasons, will serve as the director of Mission Integration and Operations. "I have full confidence in the Starliner vehicle, the men and women building and testing it, and the NASA astronauts who will ultimately fly it," Ferguson said. "The Boeing team has taken all lessons from our first uncrewed Orbital Flight Test to heart, and is making Starliner one of the safest new crewed spacecraft ever fielded. I will be here on the ground supporting Butch, Nicole and Mike while they prove it." |
David C
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From: Lausanne
Registered: Apr 2012
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posted 10-09-2020 11:41 AM
I feel for Fergie having to make this move but CST-100 development has really dragged on. For Butch, Christmas has come early. |
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