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Boeing ‘Starliner’ Crew Spaceship; America’s Next Ride to Space Takes Shape
First view of the Boeing CST-100 ‘Starliner’ crewed space taxi at the Sept. 4, 2015 Grand Opening ceremony held in the totally refurbished C3PF manufacturing facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. These are the upper and lower segments of the first Starliner crew module known as the Structural Test Article (STA) being built at Boeing’s Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility (C3PF) at KSC. Credit: Ken Kremer /kenkremer.com
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – ‘Starliner’ is the new name of America’s next spaceship destined to launch our astronauts to orbit. It will restore America’s capability to launch American astronauts from American soil to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2017 and the first capsule is already taking shape.
Built by The Boeing Company, ‘Starliner’ was officially announced by Boeing and NASA as the new name of the company’s CST-100 commercial crew transportation spacecraft during the Grand Opening event for the craft’s manufacturing facility held at the Kennedy Space Center on Friday, Sept 4. 2015 and attended by Universe Today.(…)
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Post tags: Boeing, boeing CST 100, Boeing CST 100 Starliner, Boeing Starliner, CCP, charles bolden, chris ferguson, Commercial Crew, Commerial Crew Program, ISS, KSC, NASA, Starliner
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