Barry 'Butch' Wilmore and Suni Williams will be Starliner's first crew.
from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, as OFT-2 did. CFT is expected to last about two weeks, though that and other mission parameters are not set in stone; NASA could extend CFT's duration up to six months if needed, agency officials said in today's statement, and it could also add a third astronaut to the flight.
If all goes well with CFT, NASA will move to certify Starliner for operational crewed flights to and from the space station. Agency astronaut Jeannette Epps is training to fly on the first of those missions, which is called Starliner-1, NASA officials said in today's statement. But she's also training on SpaceX'sNASA signed astronaut-taxi contracts with both Boeing and SpaceX in 2014.
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