NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test Astronauts Williams & Wilmore Arrive in Florida

NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test Astronauts Williams & Wilmore Arrive in Florida

NASA astronauts Suni Williams (left) & Butch Wilmore (right)

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams pose for photos during a news conference at the Launch and Landing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida following their arrival for the agency’s Boeing Crew Flight Test on a Northrop T-38 Talon jet. As part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program, Williams and Wilmore are the first crew to launch aboard Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft atop a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral in Florida. Liftoff for the International Space Station is currently scheduled for 10:34 p.m. ET on Monday, May 6.

NASA Astronaut Sunita Williams Official Biography

https://www.nasa.gov/people/sunita-l-williams/

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

NASA Astronaut Barry "Butch" Wilmore Official Biography

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

For more info on Starliner, visit: 

boeing.com/starliner

NASA’s Commercial Crew Program works with the American aerospace industry to provide safe, reliable, and cost-effective transportation to and from the International Space Station on American-made rockets and spacecraft launching from American soil.

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

Image Credit: NASA/Frank Michaux

Image Date: April 25, 2024

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