NASA Announces Boeing Starliner Test Flight

TapTechNews May 30th news, on May 29th local time, NASA announced that the Boeing Starliner mission has passed the review, and Boeing, NASA and the United Launch Alliance (ULA) unanimously agreed to 'elease', and it is planned to conduct a test flight at 12:25 PM this Saturday (June 1st).

Next, the NASA leadership will hold a pre-launch press conference with Boeing and ULA at 1 PM on Friday, May 31st Eastern Time in the Kennedy News Auditorium.

The mission belongs to the first manned flight test (CFT) of the Starliner. The Starliner will then take the ULA Atlas V rocket to send NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunny Williams to the International Space Station and stay for about a week.

NASA said that the leaders of the three parties 'erified the readiness for launch, including all systems, facilities and teams that support the test flight'.

Of course, although the current goal is to conduct the first test flight on June 1st, Boeing still chose June 2nd, 5th and 6th as alternate dates. So far, Boeing has lost 1.5 billion US dollars (TapTechNews note: currently about 10.875 billion RMB) due to the setbacks of the 'Starliner', and nearly 5 billion US dollars (currently about 36.25 billion RMB) of NASA's development funds.