BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. – Boeing and NASA revealed a new target launch date in July to repeat the orbital test flight of the company’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft.
Starliner is a Boeing spacecraft designed and built under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program to fly astronauts to and from the International Space Station.
The company has been working toward certifying the capsule to fly humans and this uncrewed test flight is the final step in that process.
In an update Thursday, Boeing said the Starliner CST-100 spacecraft will be ready later this month but due to launch availability with United Launch Alliance and docking at the high-traffic International Space Station, that launch is now tentatively scheduled for 2:53 p.m.