This evening, the latest passenger spacecraft of Boeing, the CST-100 Starliner, fortunately, landed itself at the International Space Station — illustrating that the vehicle can be able to bring humans to the ISS in the upcoming years. It’s a pivotal potential that Starliner has eventually verified in space after years of failures and delays.
Starliner is in the midst of a key test flight for NASA known as OFT-2, for Orbital Flight Test-2. The capsule, made by Boeing for the Commercial Crew Program of NASA, was manufactured to transport astronauts of NASA to and from the space station. Meanwhile, before anyone mounts on board, NASA assigned Boeing with organizing an undone flight illustration of Starliner to depict that the capsule can strike all of the main milestones it’ll require to strike when it is conveying passengers.
Boeing has worked hard to show the ability of Starliner until now. This mission is now named OFT-2 since it’s technically a do-over of a mission that Boeing tested back in the year 2019, named as OFT. During that flight, Starliner had dispatched to space as scheduled, but a software glitch stopped the capsule from going in the exact orbit required to head to an assignation with the ISS. Boeing had to accompany the vehicle home as soon as possible, and the organization never showed the capacity of Starliner to dispatch with the ISS.
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Now, roughly two and a half years later, Starliner has finally shown what it was designed to do. Using a series of sensors, the capsule autonomously guided itself onto an open docking port on the space station. “Boeing Starliner spacecraft fulfills its historic first launch to the International Space Station opening the latest avenue of access for crews to the orbiting lab,” Steve Siceloff, who is a communications representative for Boeing, had claimed during the live stream of the launch
