The OFT-2 launch to the ISS is scheduled for May 19.
rocket Wednesday at ULA's Vertical Integration Facility at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. that's scheduled to launch on May 19. If all goes well with OFT-2, Starliner will likely be cleared to carry NASA astronauts to and from the orbiting lab in the near future.Boeing's Starliner spacecraft sits atop its United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket on May 4, 2022.
Starliner rolled to the VIF Wednesday from Boeing's Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility at NASA’s , which is next door to Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The capsule made the trip atop ULA's motorized payload transporter, traveling at a top speed of 5 mph , ULA representatives said. "Approaching the VIF, the transporter maneuvered up to the 30-story-tall building's doorway and parked," ULA."A four-point lifting sling, called the Handling Fixture Hoist Tool, was connected to the Starliner for the overhead crane to carefully raise the spacecraft onto the Atlas V waiting inside the VIF aboard its mobile launch platform."
As its name suggests, OFT-2 will be Boeing's second try at an uncrewed test mission to the ISS. The first, which lifted off in December 2019, was cut short after Starliner
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