Elizabeth Howell (she/her), Ph.D., is a staff writer in the spaceflight channel since 2022 covering diversity, education and gaming as well. She was contributing writer for Space.com for 10 years before joining full-time.
CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA — When Boeing's Starliner capsule carries two astronauts to space tonight , at least 100 people in Mission Control will be on hand for support and guidance. at 10:34 p.m. from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station here. You can watch it live here at Space.com, via NASA Television., on Florida's Space Coast. Kinney will sit as backup to Mission Control as a consultant for other engineers.
"The vehicle was actually a good design, but the problem is that it was a paper design," Kinney said. SpaceX, she pointed out, had a head start on its Crewspacecraft, as the company was already flying a cargo Dragon variant on robotic resupply missions to the ISS before launching its first crewed test flight in 2020. SpaceX has sent 11 other crews to ISS since then.
But new lessons had to be learned as Starliner took on its first steps in space. Kinney said the questions that arose there are similar to what she has encountered in other programs:"You go, 'Well, what do I have to change? What should I change?' And so that was a lot of what they were doing."
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