Boeing Starliner

Boeing baselined land landings at one of five selected locations in the western United States to support Starliner capsule reuse.

ASAP members raised technical concerns with both Boeing and SpaceX developments, including a propulsion system problem for the Starliner propulsion module and unresolved root causes of a composite overwrapped pressure vessel failure that led to a Falcon 9 pad explosion.

SpaceX delivered crew transport capability approximately three years before Boeing's Starliner.

Boeing’s second uncrewed Starliner test flight, OFT-2, was delayed to some time in 2022.

NASA and Boeing are working to achieve flight readiness for Starliner and its Atlas V rocket in early 2023.

NASA's updated schedules in early August planned Boeing's uncrewed Starliner test flight for late 2018 or early 2019 and a crewed flight in mid-2019.

Boeing delayed the first crewed launch of Starliner from 2023 to 2024 due to parachute problems.

Boeing conducted two uncrewed Starliner test flights: one that failed to reach orbit and a second in May 2022 that docked with the International Space Station.

The 2024-06-05 Atlas V launch of Boeing’s Starliner extends the Atlas family legacy that includes launching U.S. astronaut John Glenn aboard an Atlas LV-3B from Cape Canaveral in 1962.

A forum post listed Boeing Starliner at 13 t, Sierra Nevada Corporation's Dream Chaser at 9 t, and SpaceX Dragon 2 at 12 t while listing Neutron payload capability at 8 t.

Starliner technicians worked on the Orbital Flight Test-2 spacecraft in the high bay of Boeing’s Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on 2022-01-13.