Boeing Starliner-1
Calypso being processed at Boeing's Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility in January 2020
Mission typeCrewed mission to ISS
OperatorBoeing
Mission duration180 days (planned)
Spacecraft properties
SpacecraftStarliner Spacecraft 2
ManufacturerBoeing
Launch mass13,000 kg (29,000 lb)
Start of mission
Launch dateEarly 2025 (planned)[1]
RocketAtlas V N22
Launch siteCape Canaveral, SLC-41
ContractorUnited Launch Alliance
End of mission
Landing dateNET 2025
Orbital parameters
Reference systemGeocentric orbit
RegimeLow Earth orbit
Inclination51.66°
Docking with ISS
Docking portHarmony zenith
Time docked180 days (planned)
 

Boeing Starliner-1[2] also called Post Certification Mission-1 (PCM-1)[3] is planned to be the first operational crew mission of the Boeing Starliner to the International Space Station (ISS) as part of the Commercial Crew Program. It would be the fourth orbital flight mission of the Starliner overall.[4] It is scheduled to launch no earlier than early 2025, transporting members of a future ISS Expedition.[1]

Crew

As this marks the first operational flight of Starliner, a Russian cosmonaut is not expected to be on board as Roscosmos has stated they do not want to put Russian cosmonauts on Starliner until it has flown successful Commercial Crew Program flights.[5]

On 18 April 2022, NASA said that it has not finalized which of the cadre of Starliner astronauts, including Barry Wilmore, Michael Fincke, and Sunita Williams, will fly on the CFT mission or this mission.[6] On 16 June 2022, NASA confirmed that CFT will be a two-person flight test, and Williams was assigned to the CFT mission.

On 30 September 2022, Scott D. Tingle was assigned as commander and Michael Fincke as pilot.[7] Fincke is also a backup crew member on Boe-CFT.[8]

On 22 November 2023, Joshua Kutryk was assigned to the mission by the Canadian Space Agency.[9]

Due to its delays, several astronauts originally assigned to Starliner-1 were reassigned to other missions: In 2018, Sunita Williams was planned to fly on Starliner-1,[10] she was later reassigned to the earlier CFT. Jeanette Epps was added to the Starliner-1 mission on 25 August 2020[11] but reassigned to SpaceX Crew-8 in August 2023.[12] Koichi Wakata was officially added to the Starliner-1 mission on 21 May 2021 but then reassigned to the SpaceX Crew-5 mission which launched in October 2022.[13][14][15]

Prime crew
Position Crew member
Commander United States Scott D. Tingle, NASA
Expedition 72/73
Second spaceflight
Pilot United States Michael Fincke, NASA
Expedition 72/73
Fourth spaceflight
Mission Specialist 1 Canada Joshua Kutryk, CSA
Expedition 72/73
First spaceflight
Mission Specialist 2 Japan Kimiya Yui, JAXA
Expedition 72/73
Second spaceflight

Mission

This mission was intended to be the first reuse of a Starliner spacecraft. That vehicle was initially flown as the first uncrewed Orbital Flight Test mission in December 2019. On 22 December 2019, Sunita Williams (at that time assigned to be commander on this mission) announced the name "Calypso" for the spacecraft.[16] Calypso will now be used for Boe-CFT instead. Spacecraft 2, which was used for Starliner Orbital Flight Test-2 will instead be flying this mission.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Scott, Heather (12 October 2023). "NASA Updates Commercial Crew Planning Manifest". NASA. Retrieved 12 October 2023.
  2. ^ "Commercial Crew Press Kit". nasa.gov. NASA. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  3. ^ NASA and Roscosmos planning to add mission to seat barter agreement
  4. ^ "Boeing's Starliner Makes Progress Ahead of Flight Test with Astronauts". NASA Commercial Crew. NASA. 28 August 2020. Retrieved 29 August 2020. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  5. ^ "NASA official sees possibility of expanding integrated flight deal with Russia". TASS. 4 August 2022. Retrieved 5 August 2022.
  6. ^ Clark, Stephen (18 May 2022). "Starliner astronauts eager to see results of crew capsule test flight". Spaceflight Now. Archived from the original on 23 May 2022. Retrieved 19 May 2022.
  7. ^ "NASA Updates Crew Assignments for First Starliner Crew Rotation Flight". NASA. 30 September 2022. Retrieved 30 September 2022. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  8. ^ Potter, Sean (16 June 2022). "NASA Updates Astronaut Assignments for Boeing Starliner Test Flight". NASA. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
  9. ^ Cawley, James (22 November 2023). "Mission Specialist Assigned to NASA's Boeing Starliner-1 Mission". NASA. Retrieved 22 November 2023.
  10. ^ "NASA Assigns Crews to First Test Flights, Missions on Commercial Spacecraft". 3 August 2018. Retrieved 5 August 2023.
  11. ^ Boeing [@Boeing] (25 August 2020). "The Starliner team is adding a new NASA astronaut" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  12. ^ "Space Station Assignments Out for NASA's SpaceX Crew-8 Mission". 5 August 2023. Retrieved 5 August 2023.
  13. ^ "NASA, Boeing target July 30 for redo of Starliner test flight to ISS". Orlando Sentinel. Retrieved 21 May 2021.
  14. ^ "NASA Announces Astronaut Changes for Upcoming Commercial Crew Missions" (Press release). NASA. 6 October 2021. Retrieved 7 October 2021. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  15. ^ @jaxa_wdc (12 October 2021). "JAXA has announced their WAKATA Koichi @Astro_Wakata is headed for the International Space Station aboard SpaceX's…" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  16. ^ Williams, Sunita [@Astro_Suni] (22 December 2019). "Thanking two mission control personnel" (Tweet) – via Twitter. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
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