NASA's Boeing Starliner Astronauts at the ULA Atlas V Rocket Launch Pad

NASA's Boeing Starliner Astronauts at the ULA Atlas V Rocket Launch Pad

NASA Astronauts Sunita Williams, Mike Fincke, and Barry "Butch" Wilmore at the launch pad on May 18, 2022, the day before NASA's Boeing Orbital Flight Test-2 mission to the International Space Station. 

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket with Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft aboard was rolled out of the Vertical Integration Facility to the launch pad at Space Launch Complex 41 ahead of the Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) mission, Wednesday, May 18, 2022 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Boeing’s Orbital Flight Test-2 will be Starliner’s second uncrewed flight test and will dock to the International Space Station as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program. The mission, currently targeted for launch at 6:54 p.m. ET on May 19, will serve as an end-to-end test of the system's capabilities. 

NASA Astronaut Barry "Butch" Wilmore Official Biography

https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/barry-e-wilmore/biography

NASA Astronaut Mike Fincke Official Biography

https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/edward-m-fincke/biography

NASA Astronaut Sunita Williams Official Biography

https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/sunita-l-williams/biography

https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/williams-s.pdf

For more updates about the flight test, visit https://blogs.nasa.gov/oft-2/

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

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.

Learn more about NASA’s Commercial Crew Program at:

https://www.nasa.gov/commercialcrew

Credit: Boeing/John Grant

Image Date: May 18, 2022

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