The stage is set for some space history to be made tonight as two veteran NASA astronauts aim to launch in a spacecraft that has never flown with humans before.
Starliner rolls out of the Vertical Integration Facility at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Space Launch Complex 41, on Saturday, May 4, 2024.
“That’s why we put two test pilots on board, and of course the resumes of Butch and Suni are extensive,” he said. “It almost feels unreal,” Williams said. “Like we’ve had a couple launch dates and we’ve been like, ‘OK, we’re ready to go,’ but now it’s like, heck five, five days… which means it is actually finally real, and I sort of have to pinch myself a little bit to understand we’re actually, we’re going.”
Starliner is only the sixth ever U.S.-based spacecraft to fly with NASA astronauts following Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, the space shuttle and SpaceX’s Crew Dragon. Dragon and Starliner are NASA’s solution to replace the retired Space Shuttle Program that last flew in 2011 and end its reliance on Soyuz that filled the gap as NASA’s only option for nearly nine years.
“Nobody stepped inside. I floated inside,” he said. “It was me. I got to open the hatch … We had agreed early on that as a new guy, this was a good project for me to kind of take on, and so I was the lead for when the Starliner mission was up there on space station.”
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