1st Boeing Starliner Hull Assembled as 1st Crew Flight Delays to 2018
The first Boeing CST 100 Starliner hull is bolted together by technicians working in Boeing’s Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on May 2 for the Structural Test Article pressure vessel. Credit: NASAAs canada goose parka uk completion nears for the prototype of Boeing’s first Starliner astronaut taxi, the aerospace firm announced a slip into 2018 for the blastoff date of the first crewed flight in order to deal with spacecraft mass, aerodynamic launch and flight software issues, canada goose outlet vip a Boeing spokesperson told Universe Today.
The new target launch date for the first astronauts flying aboard a Boeing CST 100 Starliner «is February 2018,» Boeing spokeswoman Rebecca Regan told Universe Today.
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Indeed engineers just bolted together the upper and lower domes of Boeings maiden Starliner crew module last canada goose clothing uk week, on May 2, forming the complete hull of the pressure vessel for the Structural Test Article (STA).
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Regan cited three technical factors accounting for the delayed launch schedule. The first relates to canada goose outlet store new york mass.
«There are a couple of things that impacted the schedule as discussed recently by John Elbon, Boeing vice president and general manager of Space Exploration.»
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«The aerodynamic acoustic loads data we were getting told us that we needed to go do some additional work. We actually now have a really viable option that we are testing right now in a wind tunnel this month.»
«So we think we are on the right path there. We have some design options we are looking at. We think we found a viable option that’s inside the scope of where we need to be on those aerodynamic acoustics in load.»
«So we will look at the data from the new wind tunnel tests.»
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Technicians monitor connection operation of upper and lower domes of the first complete hull for the Boeing CST 100 Starliner’s Structural Test Article vehicle at the Kennedy Space Center on May 2, 2016. Credit: BoeingThe Boeing CST canada goose jacket uk 100 Starliner is one of two private canada goose outlet in montreal astronaut capsules along with the SpaceX Crew Dragon being developed under a commercial partnership contract with NASA to end our sole reliance on Russia for crew launches back and forth to the International Space Station (ISS).
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