NASA Updates Coverage for Crew Flight Test Launch, Docking to Station

 Hey, Space Placers!

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft is pictured from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will launch aboard Starliner for the agency’s Boeing Crew Flight Test.

Credits: NASA/Joel Kowsky

FROM NASA:

NASA’s mission coverage is as follows (all times Eastern and subject to change based on real-time operations):

Wednesday, June 5

6:45 a.m. – Launch coverage begins on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA app, YouTube, and the agency’s website.

10:52 a.m. – Launch

Launch coverage on NASA+ will end shortly after Starliner orbital insertion. NASA Television will provide continuous coverage leading up to docking and through hatch opening and welcome remarks.

12:30 p.m. – Postlaunch news conference with the following participants:

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson

Ken Bowersox, associate administrator, NASA’s Space Operations Mission Directorate

Joel Montalbano, deputy associate administrator, NASA’s Space Operations Mission Directorate

Steve Stich, manager, NASA’s Commercial Crew Program

Mark Nappi, vice president and program manager, Commercial Crew Program, Boeing

Tory Bruno, president and CEO, ULA

Coverage of the postlaunch news conference will air live on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA app, YouTube, and the agency’s website.

LIGHT THAT CANDLE!!!

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