Starliner could fly astronauts for the first time later this year.
During a press briefing shortly after Starliner landed on Wednesday, Mark Nappi, vice president and Boeing commercial crew program manager, said teams would be soon move the vehicle to a staging area to prep it for shipment back to the company's facilities at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where it is scheduled to arrive around June 9. Then, Nappi said, Boeing will begin preparing Starliner for its first crewed mission, known as Crew Flight Test .
That being said, NASA will need to review data from OFT-2 before certifying Starliner for crewed flight. And there will be some issues to check, because the mission didn't go perfectly smoothly. For example, two of Starliner's thrustersA target date for CFT has not been determined, and NASA and Boeing have not yet announced which astronauts will fly on the mission.
In Wednesday's post-landing press conference, NASA Commercial Crew Program manager Steve Stich referenced a photo he'd seen with both Starliner and Dragon docked at the space station. "You know, I'm getting goosebumps a little bit talking about it, because, between Starliner and Dragon, that's really what this this commercial program has really been about all along — having these two different companies, with the great systems they've developed, provide crew transportation to the space station under this new commercial crew model," Stitch said.
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