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MEDIA ADVISORY M23-070
*NASA, Boeing to Hold Media Update on Crew Flight Test Today*
Inside Boeing’s Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility at NASA’s
Kennedy Space Center, the Starliner team works to finalize the mate of the
crew module and new service module for NASA's Boeing Crew Flight Test that
will take NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to and from the
International Space Station.
*/Credits: Boeing/John Grant/*
NASA and Boeing will host a media teleconference at 5 p.m. EDT today,
Thursday, June 1, to provide an update on the agency’s Boeing Crew Flight
Test to the International Space Station – the first flight with astronauts
on the company’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft.
Audio of the teleconference will livestream on NASA’s website [1].
The briefing participants are:
* Steve Stich, manager, NASA’s Commercial Crew Program
* Mark Nappi, vice president and program manager, CST-100 Starliner, Boeing
* Joel Montalbano, manager, NASA’s International Space Station Program
To participate in the call, media must RSVP no later than 30 minutes prior to
The Crew Flight Test will demonstrate the ability of Starliner and the United
Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket to safely carry astronauts to and from the
International Space Station. NASA will fly two astronaut test pilots, Butch
Wilmore [3] and Suni Williams [4], to the space station.
Find out more about NASA’s Commercial Crew Program at:
*https://www.nasa.gov/commercialcrew* [5]
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[1] http://www.nasa.gov/live
[3] https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/barry-e-wilmore#_blank
[4] https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/sunita-l-williams#_blank
[5] https://www.nasa.gov/commercialcrew