Elizabeth Howell (she/her), Ph.D., is a staff writer in the spaceflight channel since 2022 covering diversity, education and gaming as well. She was contributing writer for Space.com for 10 years before joining full-time.
NASA astronaut Suni Williams, Crew Flight Test pilot, poses in the Boeing Mockup Trainer to simulate the Starliner spacecraft at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.When Suni Williams was assigned to fly on board Boeing Starliner flight in 2018, no one anticipated it would be a six-year wait for launch.team went through in the years since, through two uncrewed test flights, the pandemic and a host of other technical issues that had to be addressed before safely launching astronauts.
"We are sort of the trailblazers, if you will, getting those training processes in place and developing them," Williams told reporters. And that mindset requires, he said a bit later on, looking beyond a"finish line" or setting firm dates for any mission milestone. NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore wearing Boeing spacesuits in the Starliner spacecraft simulator at NASA's Johnson Space Center during emergency training on Nov. 3, 2022."I feel like we've invested the time" since the first uncrewed flight test that failed to see Starliner reach the ISS in 2019, Williams said; after all, Starliner made it there on its second try in 2022.
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