NASA, Boeing Leadership Discuss Crew Flight Test at International Space Center | kbnmart

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NASA and Boeing leadership will hold a news conference at 12:30 p.m. ET on Wednesday, July 10, to discuss the agency’s crewed flight test of the International Space Station.

Participants include:

1. Steve Stich, NASA’s Commercial Crew Program Manager
2. Mark Nabi, Vice President and Commercial Crew Program Manager, Boeing

Media interested in participating should contact the newsroom at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at least one hour prior to the call at (email protected). A copy of NASA’s media accreditation policy is available online.

NASA and Boeing continue to evaluate Starliner’s propulsion system performance, address five small helium leaks in the spacecraft’s service module, and collect as much data as possible during docking with the International Space Station. Once all necessary ground testing is complete and the associated data is analyzed, NASA and Boeing leaders will conduct an agency-wide review prior to return from orbit.

As part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams launched on June 5 aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Station in Florida to conduct a full-scale test of the Starliner system. The crew docked to the forward port of the station’s Harmony module on June 6.

Since arriving on June 6, Wilmore and Williams have completed half of their hands-on research time aboard the space station, allowing their crewmates to prepare for the departure of Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus spacecraft. NASA will also hold a ground-to-space press conference at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, July 10, with the flight test astronauts to discuss the mission.

NASA’s Commercial Crew Program achieves its goal of providing safe, reliable, and economical transportation to and from the International Space Station from the United States through partnerships with the American private sector. This partnership opens up access to low-Earth orbit and the International Space Station for more people, science, and commercial opportunities. The space station remains the launching pad for NASA’s next great leap in space exploration, including future missions to the Moon under the Artemis program and, eventually, to Mars.