Boeing CST-100
The CST-100 is Boeing's entrant into the race to replace the shuttle as part of Nasa's Commercial Crew Development programme. Servicing the International Space Station is the main focus for the CST-100, although Boeing have said it may also be used for space tourism and for the space station planned by Bigelow Aerospace.
"We're focusing on keeping it simple"
John Elbon, Boeing
CST-100 Starliner
2015(Now May 2024) launch date (then 2016) (Now 2017-18) Latest April 2019 (Now 2024 with NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams was also to be Boeing astronaut and test pilot Christopher Ferguson(Chris has now dropped out) was to be NASA astronauts Sunita Lyn Williams (see below)
Atlas V, Originally also Delta IV, Falcon 9 launch vehicles
7 total crew capacity (Now 4)
$4.2 Billion Nasa funding so far*
Lands with parachutes and airbags
The spacecraft is slightly wider than the Apollo capsule, with a base about 15ft across (4.5m). It will be re-usable for up to 10 missions and will be launched from either an Atlas V rocket. The spacecraft will land using parachutes and inflatable cushions just before touchdown.
Interior mockup
Starliner maiden TEST crewed flight Mid 2019(Now NET May 2024)
With NASA astronauts Mike Fincke (Starliner-1 commander), Suni Williams (Crew Flight Test pilot) and Butch Wilmore (Crew Flight Test commander).
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The astronauts keep changing due to delays now targeting NET May 2024.
NASA astronauts Eric Boe and Nicole Aunapu Mann, ALSO Boeing Astronaut Christopher Ferguson.
For NASA's astronaut Nicole Aunapu Mann it will be her first flight into space.
Christopher Ferguson who is now a private astronaut for Boeing is included on the Starliners maiden crewed test flight, Christopher Ferguson was the NASA commander of STS-135, which was the final mission of the space shuttle program, that left the American Flag onboard the ISS for the first private astronauts to arrive at the ISS.
Starliner first MISSION crewed flight to and from the International Space Station ( 2019 now NET 2025)
Crew: NASA astronauts was Sunita Williams and Josh Cassada but now not know yet
Eric A Boe, also a US Air Force colonel, was selected as a NASA astronaut in July 2000 and served as a pilot on two space shuttle missions.
Sunita Williams holds the record for the longest space walk by a lady astronaut
Dr Josh Cassada
The maiden flight of the Starliner will be also Josh Cassada first flight into space.
Sunita Williams tour of the ISS in 2012
