17 Facts About Boeing Starliner

Boeing CST-100 Starliner is a class of two partially reusable spacecraft designed to transport crew to the International Space Station and other low-Earth-orbit destinations.

The Boeing Starliner holds a crew of up to seven people and is designed to be able to remain docked to ISS for up to seven months with reusability of up to ten missions.

Boeing's Starliner spacecraft is designed to accommodate seven passengers, or a mix of crew and cargo, for missions to low Earth orbit.

Boeing Starliner uses a weldless structure and is reusable up to 10 times with a six-month turnaround time.

Unlike earlier US space capsules, the Boeing Starliner capsule makes airbag-cushioned landings on the ground rather than into water.

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In July 2010, Boeing stated that the capsule could be operational in 2015 with sufficient near-term approvals and funding, but indicated that they would proceed with the development of the Starliner only if NASA implemented the commercial crew transport initiative that was announced by the Obama administration in its FY2011 budget request.

Part of the agreement with NASA allows Boeing Starliner to sell seats for space tourists on CCP flights to the ISS.

Boeing Starliner proposed including one seat per flight for a space-flight participant at a price that would be competitive with what Roscosmos charges tourists.

Under the contract the Starliners are owned and operated by Boeing, not NASA, and Boeing is free to offer non-CCP commercial flights if they do not interfere with the contracted CCP flights.

In May 2016, Boeing delayed its first scheduled Starliner launch from 2017 to early 2018.

In September 2011, Boeing Starliner announced the completion of a set of ground drop tests to validate the design of the airbag cushioning system.

In July 2018, Boeing Starliner announced the assignment of former NASA astronaut Christopher Ferguson to the Boe-CFT mission.

Uncrewed orbital flight test launched on December 20,2019, but after deployment, an 11-hour offset in the mission clock of Boeing Starliner caused the spacecraft to compute that "it was in an orbital insertion burn", when it was not.

Boeing Starliner said that it would fund the unplanned crew capsule test flight "at no cost to the taxpayer".

Attempts to fix the problem at the VIF failed, and Boeing Starliner decided to return the spacecraft to the factory, thus cancelling the launch at that launch window.

In December 2021, Boeing Starliner decided to replace the entire service module and anticipated OFT-2 to occur in May 2022.

Boeing Starliner is compatible with Atlas V, Delta IV, Falcon 9, and Vulcan Centaur.