Star-Crossed Starliner Flight Test Comes To A Close

boeing cst-100 starliner calypso on ground in desert at night

NASA and Boeing completed an extended three-month Starliner Crew Flight Test—sans crew—with a night landing Sept. 7 in White Sands, New Mexico.

Credit: Boeing
Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner Calypso completed a second star-crossed flight test, touching down in the New Mexico desert with the empty seats and spacesuits of the two NASA astronauts who were pulled from the return trip to Earth due to safety concerns. Time will tell if the mission was sufficient to...
Irene Klotz

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