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Boeing's CST-100 - Master Updates and Discussion Thread 3
Chris Bergin:
New Update and Discussion Thread for Boeing's CST-100.
Thread 1:
https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=22125.0
Thread 2:
https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=32438.0
News articles:
https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/tag/cst-100/
L2 Master Thread:
https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=29664.0
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Please note we now have the Starliner CST-100 Specific Forum Section, so this remains an update and discussion thread as we will be looking to create specific threads for specific updates to fill out the section on what is a relatively media shy vehicle.
jacqmans:
NASA Astronauts Get Advance Look at CST-100 Starliner Trainers
Systems will prepare crews for Boeing’s first-ever commercial spaceflights to International Space Station
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 7, 2016 – Two of the four NASA astronauts training to fly Boeing’s [NYSE: BA] CST-100 Starliner spacecraft recently tried some of the systems that will prepare them for flights to the International Space Station.
During a visit to Boeing, astronauts Eric Boe and Bob Behnken focused on systems used for learning to manipulate switches and display panels. Flight controllers were also able to experience devices they will use to train for flight tests and missions.
“We have been learning about the spacecraft displays through slideshows. It’s great to finally see what we are actually going to train on,” Boe said. ”The trainers look great, and this visit gives us an opportunity to meet with the Boeing engineers. We appreciate them allowing us to give input on these trainers so the devices are ready when they arrive at Johnson Space Center.”
Behnken added that the training equipment is comprehensive.
“Historically, some trainers were just a simple component that might have a very specific task,” he said. “This one has a lot of capability with multiple tasks coming together so it can execute more complicated training scenarios.”
Two of the trainers are to be delivered to NASA in the autumn of 2016. Boeing is also building an immersive, high-fidelity training system that’s to be delivered in early 2017 to Houston’s Johnson Space Center.
The CST-100 Starliner’s first crew flight test to the space station is expected in 2017 and will be Boeing’s first commercial flight transporting humans to that destination. More information about the CST-100 can be found at www.Boeing.com/cst100.
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NASA astronauts Eric Boe (left) and Bob Behnken inspect the controls of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner Crew Part Task Trainer as part of an early look at one of the systems that will prepare them for flight tests and missions.
arachnitect:
http://spaceflightnow.com/2016/01/19/bridging-the-past-and-future-on-the-shoulders-of-the-atlas-rocket/
Nice piece with a few details about launch ops and flight test plans.
AnalogMan:
Administrator Bolden Sees Starliner Before Testing
February 9, 2016 - Steven Siceloff
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden took a close look today at the airbag system for Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, before a contingency water landing test with a full-size spacecraft mock-up.
Although it’s designed to land on land, Boeing is testing the Starliner at Langley’s Hydro Impact Basin to evaluate its tendencies in case it has to land in the water in the event of, for example, an unlikely launch or ascent emergency that calls for the spacecraft to separate from its rocket and parachute itself and the astronauts inside to safety. Starliner is being developed in partnership with NASA to carry up to four astronauts at a time to the International Space Station. An additional crew member will allow science time on the orbiting laboratory to double for NASA’s Journey to Mars and research that will benefit everyone on Earth.
Bolden visited Langley to deliver his annual “State of NASA” address during which he detailed aspects of the agency’s budget request.
https://blogs.nasa.gov/commercialcrew/2016/02/09/administrator-bolden-sees-starliner-before-testing/
The man in the can:
It remember me of this test:
(This video was publish in April 2015)
I don't know if the airbag's design changed in between.
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