WASHINGTON, July 8, 2024
/PRNewswire/ -- Leadership from NASA and Boeing will participate in
a media briefing at 12:30 p.m. EDT Wednesday, July 10, to discuss the agency's Crew
Flight Test at the International Space Station.
Audio of the media teleconference will stream live on the
agency's website:
https://www.nasa.gov/nasatv
Participants include:
- Steve Stich, manager, NASA's Commercial Crew Program
- Mark Nappi, vice president and program manager, Commercial
Crew Program, Boeing
Media interested in participating must contact the newsroom at
NASA's Kennedy Space Center in
Florida no later than one hour
prior to the start of the call at ksc-newsroom@mail.nasa.gov. A
copy of NASA's media accreditation policy is online.
NASA and Boeing continue to evaluate Starliner's
propulsion system performance and five small helium leaks in the
spacecraft's service module, gathering as much data as possible
while docked to the International Space Station. Once all the
necessary ground testing and associated data analysis is complete,
leaders from NASA and Boeing will conduct an agency-level review
before returning from the orbiting complex.
As part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program, NASA
astronauts Butch Wilmore and
Suni Williams lifted off on
June 5, on a United Launch Alliance
Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space
Force Station in Florida on an
end-to-end test of the Starliner system. The crew docked to the
forward-facing port of the station's Harmony module on June 6.
Since their arrival on June 6,
Wilmore and Williams have completed half of all hands-on research
time conducted aboard the space station, allowing their crewmates
to prepare for the departure of Northrop Grumman's Cygnus
spacecraft. NASA also will hold an Earth to space news
conference at 11 a.m.,
Wednesday, July 10, with the Crew
Flight Test astronauts to discuss the mission.
NASA's Commercial Crew Program is delivering on its goal of
safe, reliable, and cost-effective transportation to and from the
International Space Station from the
United States through a partnership with American private
industry. This partnership is opening access to low-Earth orbit and
the International Space Station to more people, science, and
commercial opportunities. The space station remains the springboard
to NASA's next great leap in space exploration, including future
missions to the Moon under Artemis, and ultimately, to Mars.
For NASA's blog and more information about the mission,
visit:
https://www.nasa.gov/commercialcrew
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