NASA, Boeing to Provide Update on Boeing’s Orbital Flight Test-2

NASA and Boeing will hold a joint teleconference at 2:30 p.m. EDT Tuesday, Oct. 19, to update media on the company’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft. Teams will discuss work on the oxidizer isolation valve issue that was discovered ahead of the planned uncrewed Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) mission to the International Space Station in August.

 

Participants in the briefing will be:

 

• Steve Stich, manager of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program
• John Vollmer, vice president and program manager, Boeing Commercial Crew Program
• Michelle Parker, chief engineer, Boeing Space and Launch

 

Audio of the teleconference will stream live online at: 

 

https://www.nasa.gov/live

 

To participate in the teleconference, media must contact [email protected] by 1:30 p.m. Oct. 19 for the dial-in information.

 

The OFT-2 mission will launch Starliner on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Starliner will dock to the space station before returning to land in the western United States about a week later as part of an end-to-end test flight to prove the system is ready to fly crew.

 

Learn more about NASA’s Commercial Crew Program at:

 

https://www.nasa.gov/commercialcrew

 

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