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Boeing Starliner Orbital Flight Test Mission Highlights

Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft completed the first land touchdown of a human-rated capsule in U.S. history Sunday at White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico, wrapping up the company’s uncrewed Orbital Flight Test as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. The uncrewed Starliner spacecraft launched on the ULA Atlas V rocket at 6:36 a.m. Friday, Dec. 20, from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Although Starliner did not reach its planned orbit and dock to the International Space Station as planned, Boeing was able to complete a number of test objectives during the flight related to NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, including: • Successful launch of the first human-rated United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket • Checked out the Starliner propulsion systems • Tested space-to-space communications • Confirmed Starliner tracker alignments using its navigation system • Tested Starliner’s NASA Docking System • Validated all environment control and life support systems • Completed a positive command uplink between the International Space Station and Starliner Starliner settled gently onto its airbags at 7:58 a.m. EST (5:58 a.m. MST) in a pre-dawn landing that helps set the stage for future crewed landings at the same site.