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Mike Wehner
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NASA's Commercial Crew program took a great deal longer than expected to produce safe and efficient transportation to the International Space Station. Both SpaceX with its Crew Dragon and Boeing's Starliner faced huge delays that set the program back by many months. Eventually, Crew Dragon fulfilled SpaceX's promise to NASA, but Boeing is still lagging far behind. The company's failed attempt at an uncrewed flight to the ISS resulted in a long list of changes requested by NASA. Now, as Crew Dragon is already taking crews of astronauts to and from the space station, Boeing has finally completed a trip to the orbiting laboratory... in a simulation.
In a new blog post, NASA offers an update on the Commercial Crew program with a story of Boeing and NASA completing a mock mission to the ISS using the systems that are featured on the actual Starliner spacecraft. The "integrated mission dress rehearsal," as NASA calls it, was a test of an uncrewed flight to the space station and it played out at Boeing's Avionics and Software Integration Lab in Houston.
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Boeing’s Starliner flew to the International Space Station… in a simulation originally appeared on BGR.com on Thu, 6 May 2021 at 18:15:03 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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