Boeing Starliner-1 is planned to be the first operational crew mission of the

Boeing Starliner The Boeing CST-100 Starliner
is a class of two partially reusable spacecraft designed to transp ...

to the

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(ISS) as part of the

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. It would be the fourth orbital flight mission of the Starliner overall. It is scheduled to launch no earlier than 2024, transporting members of a future ISS Expedition.

Crew

As this marks the first operational flight of Starliner, a Russian cosmonaut is not expected to be on board as

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has stated they do not want to put Russian cosmonauts on Starliner until it has flown successful

flights. On 21 May 2021 NASA announced JAXA astronaut

Koichi Wakata is a Japanese engineer and a JAXA astronaut. Wakata is a veteran of four NASA Space Shuttle missions, a Russian Soyuz mission, and a long-duration stay on the International Space Station. During a nearly two-decade career in spaceflight, he has ...

as the fourth member of the crew, in cooperation with JAXA as NASA's international partner, but in October 2021 reassigned him to the October 2022

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mission. On 18 April 2022, NASA said that it has not finalized which of the cadre of Starliner astronauts, including

Barry Wilmore Barry Eugene "Butch" Wilmore (born December 29, 1962) is a NASA astronaut and United States Navy test pilot. He has had two spaceflights, the first of which was an 11-day Space Shuttle mission in November 2009, to the International Space Statio ...

Michael Fincke Edward Michael "Mike"/"Spanky" Fincke (born March 14, 1967) is an American astronaut who formerly held the American record for the most time in space (381.6 days). His record was broken by Scott Kelly on October 16, 2015. Mike Fincke was bor ...

, and

Sunita Williams Sunita Lyn Williams (born September 19, 1965) is an American astronaut and United States Navy officer who formerly held the records for most spacewalks by a woman (seven) and most spacewalk time for a woman (50 hours, 40 minutes). Williams was ...

, will fly on the CFT mission or this mission. On 16 June 2022, NASA confirmed that CFT will be a two-person flight test, and Williams will be reassigned for the CFT mission. NASA astronaut

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continues to prepare for an upcoming long duration mission aboard Starliner-1. NASA also has identified backup flight opportunities for Epps on the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft for additional scheduling and resource flexibility. Epps has begun cross-training on the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft to prepare for this possibility. On 30 September 2022,

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was assigned as commander and

as pilot.

Mission

This mission will be the first reuse of a Starliner spacecraft. The vehicle was initially flown as the first uncrewed Orbital Flight Test mission in December 2019. On 22 December 2019, commander Sunita Williams announced the name "Calypso" for the spacecraft. Calypso will now be used for Boe-CFT as Spacecraft 2 is used for Starliner Orbital Flight Test-2.

was added to the Starliner-1 mission on 25 August 2020. Koichi Wakata was officially added to the Starliner-1 mission on 21 May 2021 but then reassigned to SpaceX Crew-5 mission in October 2022.

was assigned as back-up for

on Boe-CFT.

References

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Crew

Mission

See also

References