The chances of astronauts flying aboard Starliner in 2022 ride on the success of OFT-2.
Boeing's Starliner capsule is all set to launch on the uncrewed Orbital Flight Test 2 mission to the International Space Station .
Following a May 11 flight readiness review, NASA and Boeing are targeting an instantaneous launch window of May 19 at 6:54 p.m. EDT for liftoff ofatop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. This will be Starliner's second attempt to rendezvous and dock with the ISS, and a critical step in NASA's certification of the Boeing spacecraft for human passengers.
Starliner's first OFT mission, in December 2019, literally fell short of expectations, failing to achieve the necessary orbit to reach thedue to software glitches. Boeing readied Starliner for a do-over in early August 2021, but preflight checks hours before liftoff revealed problems in over half of the oxidizer valves in Starliner's propulsion system, and the launch was scrubbed. The capsule was unstacked from its Atlas V and returned to Boeing for repairs.
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