NASA, Boeing to Discuss Starliner’s Mission

WEBWIRE – Monday, June 17, 2024

NASA and Boeing will discuss Starliners mission and departure from the International Space Station as part of the agencys Boeing Crew Flight Test in a pre-departure media teleconference at 12 p.m. EDT Tuesday, June 18.

NASA, Boeing, and station management teams will evaluate mission requirements and weather conditions at available landing locations in the southwestern U.S. before committing to the spacecrafts departure from the orbiting laboratory.

Participants in the news conference include:

• Steve Stich, manager, NASAs Commercial Crew Program
• Dana Weigel, manager, NASAs International Space Station Program
• Mike Lammers, flight director, NASAs Johnson Space Center in Houston
• Mark Nappi, vice president and program manager, Commercial Crew Program, Boeing

To ask questions, media must dial into the teleconference no later than 15 minutes before the start of the event.

Audio of the teleconference will stream live on NASAs website at:

https://nasa.gov/nasatv

As part of NASAs Commercial Crew Program, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunny Williams lifted off at 10:52 a.m., June 5, on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on an end-to-end test of the Starliner system. The crew docked to the forward-facing port of the stations Harmony module at 1:34 p.m., June 6.

For NASAs blog and more information about the mission, visit:

https://www.nasa.gov/commercialcrew

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