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Saturday, May 21, 2022

Boeing Starliner Hatch Opening & Welcoming Remarks | International Space Station

Boeing Starliner Hatch Opening & Welcoming Remarks | International Space Station

[Crew Remarks on Historic Importance at 1 hour, 33 minute mark] 

Following launch on May 19, 2022, and docking on May 20, the hatch of the Boeing Starliner vehicle was opened for the first time. NASA astronauts Kjell Lindgren, Bob Hines, and Jessica Watkins as well as European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti of Italy and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Korsakov, Space Station Commander, Oleg Artemyev, and Denis Matveev provided welcoming remarks during an in-flight event on May 21. Starliner will complete a series of test objectives as part of the OFT-2 test flight and will remain docked to the space station until May 25, 2022, when it will undock and land at White Sands Space Harbor, New Mexico.

Boeing's Starliner and SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft have been developed and tested to fly astronauts to and from the International Space Station from U.S. soil.

For more info on OFT-2 and Starliner, visit: boeing.com/starliner

Learn more about NASA’s Commercial Crew Program at: https://www.nasa.gov/commercialcrew


Credit: NASA Video

Duration: 1 hour, 42 minutes

Release Date: May 21, 2022


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