Boeing's Starliner Readies for Space
Starliner Manned Flight to International Space Station Source: Boeing Starliner Boeing and NASA Commercial Astronauts At the Johnson Space Center in Houston, a veteran team of astronauts are training for the trip of a lifetime. They'll be launched into space onboard Boeing's new spacecraft Starliner to the International Space Station. The Starliner is a next generation space capsule designed to take people to and from low Earth orbit. For Boeing, NASA is the anchor company for Starliner, beginning with missions to the ISS with NASA and NASA sponsored crews. The space vehicle will eventually take tourists on space voyages. Launch Time The Starliner mission will launch in late 2019 or in early 2020. The five person crew, two women and three men, are Boeing and NASA veteran astronauts. This mission underscores the importance of the growing commercial business opportunities in space. You might call it an intergalactic global business fron...