The former Orbiter Processing Facility 3 is being transitioned into an assembly line where Boeing is manufacturing the CST-100 Starliner commercial crew vehicle.
Boeing will perform a second Orbital Flight Test of the CST-100 Starliner at its own expense.
The first Orbital Flight Test mission of CST-100 Starliner in December 2019 was cut short and its planned docking with the International Space Station was canceled because of software problems.
Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner and NASA’s Orion also use large ringsail parachutes but with different configurations.
Delays in the development of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner prompted NASA to procure additional commercial crew missions from SpaceX.
As of December 7, 2018, the United Launch Alliance Atlas V first stage booster for Boeing's CST-100 Starliner Orbital Flight Test was shipped from Decatur, Alabama to the Atlas Spaceflight Operations Center at Cape Canaveral aboard the company's Mariner cargo vessel.
On 2018-05-22, Boeing spokesman Jerry Drelling indicated that Boeing had no plans to acquire a Soyuz spacecraft for a 2020 International Space Station mission and that the company was confident the CST-100 Starliner would be flying to the ISS in 2020.
Boeing confirmed on 2018-07-21 that an anomaly occurred during a recent test of the launch abort engines for its CST-100 Starliner commercial crew vehicle that could delay a key milestone needed for the vehicle to carry astronauts.
When NASA awarded commercial crew contracts in September 2014, the agency set a goal of having both SpaceX’s Crew Dragon and Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner certified to carry people by the end of 2017.
Boeing confirmed on 2019-04-02 that it will delay the uncrewed test flight of its CST-100 Starliner commercial crew vehicle.
NASA approved a proposal on 2019-04-03 to use Boeing’s crewed test flight of the CST-100 Starliner as a long-duration mission to the International Space Station.
Boeing is working to qualify the CST-100 Starliner’s parachute system and to address an issue discovered during a parachute test in August 2018.
Boeing's CST-100 Starliner uncrewed test flight is delayed due to an Atlas 5 launch, now scheduled for August 8, 2023.
Boeing is scheduled to perform a pad abort test of its CST-100 Starliner spacecraft at White Sands Missile Range on 2019-11-04.
Boeing concluded that a misplaced pin prevented a main parachute from deploying during the 2019-11-04 pad abort test of the CST-100 Starliner at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.
Boeing announced on 2019-12-03 that it is delaying the uncrewed Orbital Flight Test of the CST-100 Starliner by two days.
Boeing and SpaceX would have the capability to perform short-duration private astronaut missions through 2024 using the commercial crew vehicles they are developing for routine transport to and from the International Space Station.
Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner is scheduled to launch on 2019-12-19 on an uncrewed test flight and, if that date holds, is scheduled to dock with the ISS on 2019-12-20 and remain there for four or five days.
Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner launched on an uncrewed Orbital Flight Test on 2019-12-20.
Boeing and SpaceX received Commercial Crew Transportation Capability contracts in 2014 to complete development of their crewed spacecraft.