NASA's Space to Ground: Boeing Starliner Flight Test—Week of May 20, 2022

NASA's Space to Ground: Boeing Starliner Flight Test—Week of May 20, 2022

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station. A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket carrying Boeing's Starliner spacecraft, launching for NASA's Commercial Crew Program, lifted off from from Space Launch Complex-41 at 6:54 p.m. EDT on May 19, 2022. 

Known as Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2), this is the second uncrewed flight for Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program (CCP). OFT-2 will demonstrate the end-to-end capabilities of the Starliner spacecraft and Atlas V rocket from launch to docking to a return to Earth in the desert of the western United States. The mission will provide valuable data toward NASA certifying Boeing’s crew transportation system for regular flights with astronauts to and from the International Space Station. Starliner will automatically dock to the International Space Station's Harmony module’s forward port at 7:10 p.m. EDT on Friday where it will stay for approximately five days of cargo and test operations. 

Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Duration: 2 minutes, 38 seconds

Release Date: May 20, 2022

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