Starliner CFT Launch Thread! (First crewed flight of Boeing Starliner capsule)

At long last, the first crewed flight of Starliner!

Scheduled for (UTC) 2024-05-07, 02:34
Scheduled for (local) 2024-05-06, 22:34 (EDT)
Docking scheduled for (UTC)
Mission Boeing Crewed Flight Test
Launch site SLC-41, Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA
Launch Vehicle Atlas V N22
Starliner SC3-2 (Calypso)
Commander Barry “Butch” Wilmore 🇺🇸
Pilot Sunita Williams 🇺🇸
Mission success criteria Successful launch and docking to the ISS

Livestreams

Stream Link
NASA www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb3qcR2tUQs
ULA
Boeing
Space Affairs www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oed2KpyJUmo
Spaceflight Now
NASASpaceflight www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI1u80rw5LY
Everyday Astronaut www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez3bQSz_rLM
The Launch Pad www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYomtTVvKXg
The Space Devs

Launch statistics

☑️ 1st crewed flight of Starliner, 3rd flight overall

☑️ 1st Atlas V launch this year, 100th overall

☑️ 3rd ULA launch this year, 161st overall

Mission Details 🚀

threelonmusketeers, (edited )

Launch scrubbed for the day. Crew egress under way.

Edit: ULA states that a problem was identified with an oxygen relief valve on the Centaur upper stage.

clothes,

Darn. I hope it’s a quick fix and we don’t have to deal with weeks of doomerism.

Turd_Ferg,
@Turd_Ferg@sh.itjust.works avatar

The crew must be extreme nervous with the string of failures coming from Boeing right now.

Rentlar,

Better check those door plugs 3 times.

threelonmusketeers,

ULA countdown has started: twitter.com/ulalaunch/status/1787501279268225400

Weather looking good: twitter.com/ulalaunch/status/1787522868537852147

In the first briefing of the countdown, the launch weather team tells mission managers that the forecast for launch of and remains at a 95 percent chance of acceptable conditions for liftoff tonight at 10:34pmEDT (0234 UTC). bit.ly/av_cft

All systems remain go: twitter.com/ulalaunch/status/1787535388946399639

All systems remain “go” here at launch control and at Space Launch Complex-41 as we count down to tonight’s liftoff at 10:34pmEDT (0234 UTC).

Learn more about today’s unique schedule in our blog: blog.ulalaunch.com/…/cft-a-preview-of-launch-day-…

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GM6VCUDXgAEUPzy?format=jpg

threelonmusketeers,

Atlas V and Starliner rolled out to SLC-41 on Saturday.

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