Boeing Starliner-1 facts for kids
Calypso being processed at Boeing's Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility in January 2020
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| Mission type | Crewed mission to ISS |
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| Operator | Boeing |
| Mission duration | 180 days (planned) |
| Spacecraft properties | |
| Spacecraft | Starliner Calypso |
| Manufacturer | Boeing |
| Launch mass | 13,000 kg (29,000 lb) |
| Start of mission | |
| Launch date | March 2023 (planned) |
| Rocket | Atlas V N22 |
| Launch site | Cape Canaveral, SLC-41 |
| Contractor | United Launch Alliance |
| End of mission | |
| Landing date | NET 2023 |
| Orbital parameters | |
| Reference system | Geocentric orbit |
| Regime | Low Earth orbit |
| Inclination | 51.66° |
| Docking with ISS | |
| Docking port | Harmony forward or zenith |
| Time docked | 180 days (planned) |
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Commercial Crew Program
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Boeing Starliner-1 is planned to be the first operational crew mission of the Boeing Starliner to the International Space Station (ISS), and would be the fourth orbital flight mission of the Starliner overall. It is scheduled for launch no earlier than March 2023, as SpaceX Crew-5 is due to launch in the fall of 2022. It would transport members of a future ISS Expedition to the ISS. This would only be the fifth U.S. spaceflight with a female commander, after STS-93, STS-114, STS-120 and SpaceX Crew-5. However, continued international collaboration on ISS missions has been thrown into doubt by the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and related sanctions on Russia.
Crew
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 either Starliner or Crew Dragon until they have flown successful Commercial Crew Program flights. On 21 May 2021 NASA announced JAXA astronaut Koichi Wakata as the fourth member of the crew, in cooperation with JAXA as NASA's international partner but in October 2021 reassigned him to the September 2022 SpaceX Crew-5 mission.
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 actually fly on the CFT mission or the first operational Starliner mission.
| Position | Crew member | |
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| Commander |  TBA, NASAThird spaceflight |
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| Pilot | TBA, NASA |
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| Mission Specialist 1 | Jeanette Epps, NASA First spaceflight |
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| Mission Specialist 2 | TBA | |
Mission
This mission will be the first reuse of a Starliner spacecraft. The vehicle was initially flown as the first uncrewed Orbital Flight Test mission in December 2019. On 22 December 2019, commander Sunita Williams announced the name "Calypso" for the spacecraft. Calypso will now be used for Boe-CFT as Spacecraft 2 is used for Starliner Orbital Flight Test-2.
Jeanette Epps was added to the Starliner-1 mission on 25 August 2020. Koichi Wakata was officially added to the Starliner-1 mission on 21 May 2021 but then reassigned to SpaceX Crew-5 mission in October 2021.
See also
In Spanish: Boeing Starliner-1 para niños
