NASA, Boeing to launch uncrewed test flight to space station

Author: Xinhua/APP

LOS ANGELES: NASA and Boeing are targeting next Thursday, May 19, to launch Boeing Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) to the International Space Station (ISS).

Scheduled to launch at 6:54 p.m. EDT, OFT-2 is the second uncrewed flight for Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. Starliner will launch on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, NASA said on Friday.

Starliner is expected to arrive at the ISS for docking about 24 hours after launch with more than 500 pounds of NASA cargo and crew supplies. After a successful docking, Starliner will spend five to 10 days aboard the orbiting laboratory before returning to Earth in the western United States, according to NASA.

Share
Leave a Comment

Recent Posts

  • Pakistan

The march is on despite ‘crackdown

As PTI convoys from across the country kept on marching Islamabad for the party's much-touted…

2 hours ago
  • Pakistan

PM tasks Punjab, NA speakers with placating PPP

Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif has instructed the speakers of the national assembly and Punjab's provincial…

2 hours ago
  • Pakistan

Kurram warring tribes agree on 7-day ceasefire

Following the government's efforts to ease tensions in Kurram, a ceasefire was agreed between the…

2 hours ago
  • Pakistan

Polio tally hits 55 after three more cases surface

In a worrying development, Pakistan's poliovirus tally has reached 55 after three more children were…

2 hours ago
  • Cartoons

TODAY’S CARTOON

2 hours ago
  • Editorial

Diplomacy & Disruptions

Islamabad welcomed Belarusian Foreign Minister Maksim Reznichenko who is leading a 68-member delegation. Of course,…

2 hours ago