NASA's Space to Ground: Boeing Starliner Pre-launch | Week of May 3, 2024

NASA's Space to Ground: Boeing Starliner Pre-launch | Week of May 3, 2024

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what is happening aboard the International Space Station. A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket will launch Boeing’s Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 Starliner spacecraft with two NASA astronauts, Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita "Suni" Williams on the Crew Flight Test (CFT) to the International Space Station.

Launch Date and Time: May 6, 2024 at 10:34 p.m. EDT 

Launch updates: 

https://www.ulalaunch.com/missions/next-launch/atlas-v-starliner-cft

For more info on Starliner, visit: 

boeing.com/starliner

NASA’s Commercial Crew Program works with the American aerospace industry to provide safe, reliable, and cost-effective transportation to and from the International Space Station on American-made rockets and spacecraft launching from American soil.

Follow Expedition 70 Updates: 

https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/

Expedition 70 Crew

Station Commander: Oleg Kononenko (Russia)

Roscosmos (Russia): Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin (Russia)

NASA: Tracy Dyson, Matthew Dominik, Mike Barrett, Jeanette Epps

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada. The ISS has been the most politically complex space exploration program ever undertaken.

Learn more about NASA’s Commercial Crew Program at: 

https://www.nasa.gov/commercialcrew

Learn more about the important research being operated on Station:

https://www.nasa.gov/iss-science 

For more information about STEM on Station:

https://www.nasa.gov/stemonstation

Video Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Duration: 6 minutes, 18 seconds

Release Date: May 3, 2024

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