2 Jun 2023----------------M23-070

NASA and Boeing will host a media teleconference at 5 p.m. EDT today, Thursday, June 1, to provide an update on the agency’s Boeing Crew Flight Test to the International Space Station – the first flight with astronauts on the company’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft.

Audio of the teleconference will livestream on NASA’s website.

The briefing participants are:

• Steve Stich, manager, NASA’s Commercial Crew Program
• Mark Nappi, vice president and program manager, CST-100 Starliner, Boeing
• Joel Montalbano, manager, NASA’s International Space Station Program

To participate in the call, media must RSVP no later than 30 minutes prior to the start of the event at ksc-newsroom@mail.nasa.gov.

The Crew Flight Test will demonstrate the ability of Starliner and the United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket to safely carry astronauts to and from the International Space Station. NASA will fly two astronaut test pilots, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, to the space station.

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Inside Boeing’s Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, the Starliner team works to finalize the mate of the crew module and new service module for NASA's Boeing Crew Flight Test that will take NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to and from the International Space Station.