Boeing Starliner (CST-100, Crew Space Transportation), Boeing, Chicago, Illinois, USA

The Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 is designed to carry a crew of seven, can launch on Delta IV as shown here in this artist's depiction and will provide a commercial transportation service for NASA back and forth to the International Space Station. Boeing also plans to use the CST-100 spacecraft to support Bigelow Aerospace's Orbital Space Complex. In addition, Space Adventures will sell unused seats for flights to low Earth orbit.

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Helping to build and design a space capsule would be an amazing experience, but building and designing a space capsule that you might one day sit in would be unthinkable. Not for Kavya Manyapu, a CST-100 engineer hoping to become an astronaut.

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Boeing’s Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 is being developed as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, which aims to resume U.S.-based flights to space by 2017 . The CST-100 will transport up to seven passengers or a mix of crew and cargo to the International Space Station (ISS) and other low-Earth orbit destinations. Under the Commercial Crew Transportation (CCtCap) phase of the program, Boeing will build three CST-100s at the company’s Commercial Crew Processing Facility at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The spacecraft will undergo a pad-abort test in 2016, an uncrewed flight in early 2017, leading up to the first crewed flight to the ISS in mid-2017.

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We are at the edge of a new era in human spaceflight. Boeings CST-100 Starliner, set to launch in 2018, will be one of the first commercial space capsules to take people to and from low-Earth orbit. Will you be a future passenger?

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During Starliner’s Service Module Hot Fire test, four launch abort engines produced a combined 160,000 pounds of thrust in the New Mexico desert.

This important milestone paves the way for the system’s next critical test, Pad Abort, slated for later this summer. This rigorous testing process is to ensure the safety of all of our crews.

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Get the inside scoop on where Starliner will launch with Atlas V. Go to Space Launch Complex-41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station with our pad team lead Melanie Weber.

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Suit up for Starliner crew training at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston with Boeing astronaut Chris Ferguson and Human Factors Systems Engineer Celena Dopart, whose job it is to “pretend to be an astronaut.” Find out how cameras and a Samsung tablet will help train astronauts for docking to the International Space Station. Captured with the Galaxy Note 9.

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Go behind the scenes during #Starliner’s first flight that successfully put the Pad Abort system to the test. Watch the entire flight in real time with our photographer at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, as Starliner’s launch abort engines ignite, propelling the vehicle roughly a mile up (approx. 1.6 km) and a mile away from the test stand in just about 90 seconds.

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Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft launched aboard an Atlas V rocket on an Orbital Flight Test at 6:36 a.m. EST, Friday, Dec. 20. The spacecraft had an off-nominal orbit insertion, but was placed in a safe orbit and configuration and will return to land at White Sands, New Mexico.

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Boeing's Starliner CST-100 crew capsule launched to the International Space Station atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket on Dec. 20, 2019.

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NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Mike Fincke explain how they could have taken manual control of the OFT-1 Starliner capsule to handle an off-nominal orbit insertion. Boeing's Starliner won't reach Space Station, NASA Chief says.

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Starliner, we are go for launch! Watch the CST-100 #Starliner launch on its Orbital Flight Test lifted by the United Launch Alliance #AtlasV to the International Space Station as part of the NASA Commercial Crew Program.

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Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner crew capsule will land at the White Sands Space Harbor, on the White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, on 22 December 2019, at approximately 12:57 UTC (05:57 MST, 07:57 EST, 04:57 PST). A backup opportunity is schedueled at the same site at 20:48 UTC (13:48 MST). Jim Chilton, senior vice president of Boeing’s Space and Launch Division, explained the anomaly that lead to an off-nominal orbital insertion, putting Starliner in an unplanned orbit.
Credit: Boeing/NASA

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Boeing Starliner touched down in White Sands, New Mexico on Dec. 22, 2019 after an abbreviated first mission.

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Tune in as Boeing's uncrewed Starliner spacecraft lands at White Sands, New Mexico. Landing is scheduled at 7:57 a.m. EST on Sunday, Dec. 22. After its launch on Dec. 20, the Starliner did not reach the planned orbit and will not dock to the International Space Station. Teams worked quickly to ensure the spacecraft was in a stable orbit and preserved enough fuel for a landing opportunity.

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Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft completed the first touchdown on land of a human-rated space capsule in U.S. history Sunday, Dec. 22, 2019, at White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico, wrapping up the uncrewed Orbital Flight Test as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program.

Starliner settled gently onto its air bags at 7:58 a.m. EST in a pre-dawn landing that helps set the stage for future crewed landings at the same site. The landing followed a deorbit burn at 7:23 a.m., separation of the spacecraft’s service module, and successful deployment of its three main parachutes and six airbags.

One hour after landing, NASA and Boeing held a news conference at NASA Johnson Space Center with NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, Jim Chilton, senior vice president of Boeing’s Space and Launch Division, and Steve Stich, deputy manager of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program.

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Inside the #Starliner production factory at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Boeing is preparing the spacecraft's second reusable crew module for the Orbital Flight Test-2 mission. Go behind the scenes to learn more about the vehicle's build process and history.

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A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V N22 launch vehicle, with a dual engine Centaur upper stage, launched Boeing’s Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 Starliner spacecraft on its Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) to the International Space Station (ISS), from Space Launch Complex 41 (SLC-41), Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, on 19 May 2022, at 22:54 UTC (18:54 EDT). The Starliner crew capsule is scheduled to autonomously dock to the ISS on 20 May 2022, at 23:10 UTC (19:10 EDT).
Credits: United Launch Alliance/NASA/Boeing
Atlas V launches Starliner OFT-2

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Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner crew capsule autonomously docked to the International Space Station, on Harmony module’s forward-facing International Docking Adapter, on 21 May 2022, at 00:28 UTC (20 May, at 20:28 EDT). For Boeing’s Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2), the Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 Starliner spacecraft is carrying about 500 pounds of NASA cargo and crew supplies and more than 300 pounds of Boeing cargo to the International Space Station.

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