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Boeing's Starliner makes its first uncrewed approach to the International Space Station during Orbital Flight Test-2 on May 21, 2022.received contracts from NASA in 2014 for commercial crew missions to the ISS. Boeing's contract for the Starliner is valued at $4.2 billion, compared to SpaceX's $2.6 billion. Despite the lower contract amount, SpaceX beat Boeing to the space station and has been running operational ISS missions since 2020.
"There's about a 15-second pause as the first stage separates cover that covers a docking system," Lammers explained. Atlas V will also discard a special"aeroskirt," a 70-inch-long structure integrated into the Launch Vehicle Adapter that links Starliner up with the Atlas V's Centaur upper stage. While operational missions aim to be that way, that cannot the case for the first Starliner as the astronauts will be doing tests for both nominal scenarios, and off-nominal scenarios.
"During approach, rendezvous, and docking with the station, the Starliner team will assess spacecraft thruster performance for manual abort scenarios, conduct communication checkouts, test manual and automated navigation, and evaluate life support systems. Crew aboard the station will monitor the spacecraft's approach and the Starliner crew would command any necessary aborts,"
"We'll go into Starliner, they'll close the hatch basically completely power up the vehicle on their own to practice if they're getting ready for an emergency undock and return," LaCourt said.
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