UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE BOEING STARLINER SET FOR LIFTOFF TO ISS ON FRIDAY

Hey Space Placers! 

BREAKING NEWS   UPDATE

TOMORROW'S LAUNCH HAS BEEN SCRUBBED DUE TO 

"Allowing the International Space Station team time to continue working checkouts of the newly arrived Roscosmos' Nauka module and to ensure the station will be ready for Starliner's arrival."

A new launch date will be announced soon.

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The Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft is secured atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at the Vertical Integration Facility at Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on July 17, 2021. Starliner will launch on the Atlas V for Boeing’s second Orbital Flight Test (OFT-2) for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. The spacecraft rolled out from Boeing’s Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center earlier in the day.

Credits: Boeing/John Grant

The second Orbital Flight Test (OFT-2) of Boeing's Starliner crew capsule is due for liftoff tomorrow at 2:53 p.m. EDT.  The uncrewed spacecraft will dock with the International Space Station (ISS) 24 hours after liftoff if all goes according to schedule.

If OFT-2 is a success NASA has indicated the first crewed mission of Starliner could happen later this year.

Here are details on how to watch and participate.

LIGHT THAT CANDLE!!

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