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CAPE CANAVERAL — Boeing has spent more than $1.5 billion to develop its CST-100 Starliner amid years of delays, but the payoff on its deal with NASA is on the horizon with the first human test flight set for launch Monday night.
Veteran NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will climb aboard the capsule for the Crew Flight Test atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. It’s set to lift off from Canaveral’s Space Launch Complex 41 at 10:34 p.m. to the International Space Station.
The duo will return after eight days with a landing in the western United States. The pair will test docking, undocking and landing procedures, including manual takeovers for what would normally be automated systems.
“The success of this mission has always been very important for us as a program for a lot of reasons,” said Mark Nappi, Boeing’s Starliner program manager during a launch readiness review last week. “Number one, we have humans flying on this vehicle. We always take that so seriously — human spaceflight. … Second is, this is an important capability for NASA, and so you know we signed up to go do this, and we’re going to go do it and be successful at it.”
The Boeing CST-100 Starliner Crew Flight Test will launch two NASA veteran astronauts atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 41 targeting liftoff Monday, May 6, at 10:34 p.m. headed for the International Space Station.
Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will stay on board for eight days before returning the Starliner to Earth with a land touchdown in the western United States sometime in mid-May. The mission looks to pave the way for certification of the spacecraft as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program so that Boeing can join SpaceX with rotational astronaut missions to the ISS.
The CFT flight comes about four years after SpaceX managed its first crewed test flight because of a series of delays in Boeing’s program. In those four years, SpaceX has managed 13 flights of its fleet of Crew Dragons taking 50 people into space including eight rotational missions to the ISS during which astronauts stay for around six months.