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Boeing Starliner-1

Boeing Starliner-1

Calypso being processed at Boeing's Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility in January 2020
Names	Post Certification Mission-1 PCM-1[1]
Mission type	ISS crew transport
Operator	Boeing Defense, Space & Security
Mission duration	180 days (planned)
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft	Boeing Starliner Spacecraft 2
Spacecraft type	Boeing Starliner
Manufacturer	Boeing Defense, Space & Security
Launch mass	13,000 kg (29,000 lb)
Crew
Crew size	4
Members	Scott D. Tingle Michael Fincke Joshua Kutryk Kimiya Yui
Start of mission
Launch date	Early 2025 (planned)[2]
Rocket	Atlas V N22[a]
Launch site	Cape Canaveral, SLC-41
Contractor	United Launch Alliance[b]
End of mission
Landing date	TBD
Landing site	TBD[c]
Orbital parameters
Reference system	Geocentric orbit
Regime	Low Earth orbit
Inclination	51.66°
Docking with ISS
Docking port	Harmony zenith
Time docked	180 days (planned)
Commercial Crew Program ← SpaceX Crew-9 SpaceX Crew-10 →   Boeing Starliner flights ← Boeing Crew Flight Test Boeing Starliner-2 →

Boeing Starliner-1, also called Post Certification Mission-1 (PCM-1), is planned to be the first operational crewed mission of the Boeing Starliner to the International Space Station (ISS) as part of the Commercial Crew Program. It will be the fourth orbital flight mission of the Starliner overall.^[4] It is scheduled to launch no earlier than early 2025, transporting members of a future ISS Expedition.^[2]

Crew[edit]

As this marks the first operational flight of Starliner, a Russian cosmonaut is not expected to be on board as Roscosmos has stated they do not want to put Russian cosmonauts on Starliner until it has flown successful Commercial Crew Program flights.^[5]

On 18 April 2022, NASA said that it has not finalized which of the cadre of Starliner astronauts, including Barry Wilmore, Michael Fincke, and Sunita Williams, will fly on the CFT mission or this mission.^[6] On 16 June 2022, NASA confirmed that CFT will be a two-person flight test, and Williams was assigned to the CFT mission.

On 30 September 2022, Scott D. Tingle was assigned as commander and Michael Fincke as pilot.^[7] Fincke is also a backup crew member on Boe-CFT.^[8]

On 22 November 2023, Joshua Kutryk was assigned to the mission by the Canadian Space Agency.^[9] Expedition 72/73 astronaut Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency is expected to take the fourth seat.^[10]

Due to its delays, several astronauts originally assigned to Starliner-1 were reassigned to other missions: In 2018, Sunita Williams was planned to fly on Starliner-1,^[11] she was later reassigned to the earlier CFT. Jeanette Epps was added to the Starliner-1 mission on 25 August 2020^[12] but reassigned to SpaceX Crew-8 in August 2023.^[13] Koichi Wakata was officially added to the Starliner-1 mission on 21 May 2021 but then reassigned to the SpaceX Crew-5 mission which launched in October 2022.^[14][15][16]

Prime crew

Position	Crew member
Commander	Scott D. Tingle, NASA Expedition 72/73 Second spaceflight
Pilot	Michael Fincke, NASA Expedition 72/73 Fourth spaceflight
Mission Specialist	Joshua Kutryk, CSA Expedition 72/73 First spaceflight
Mission Specialist	Kimiya Yui, JAXA Expedition 72/73 Second spaceflight

Mission[edit]

This mission was intended to be the first reuse of a Starliner spacecraft. That vehicle was initially flown as the first uncrewed Orbital Flight Test mission in December 2019. On 22 December 2019, Sunita Williams (at that time assigned to be commander on this mission) announced the name "Calypso" for the spacecraft.^[17] Calypso will now be used for Boe-CFT instead. Spacecraft 2, which was used for Starliner Orbital Flight Test-2 will instead be flying this mission.

Notes[edit]

References[edit]

^ "Boeing's Starliner Makes Progress Ahead of Flight Test with Astronauts". NASA Commercial Crew. NASA. 28 August 2020. Retrieved 29 August 2020. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

^ "NASA Updates Crew Assignments for First Starliner Crew Rotation Flight". NASA. 30 September 2022. Retrieved 30 September 2022. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

^ "NASA Announces Astronaut Changes for Upcoming Commercial Crew Missions" (Press release). NASA. 6 October 2021. Retrieved 7 October 2021. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

^ Williams, Sunita [@Astro_Suni] (22 December 2019). "Thanking two mission control personnel" (Tweet) – via Twitter. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.