Commercial crew astronauts Chris Ferguson, Suni Williams, Eric Boe, Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada visit with Boeing and United Launch Alliance employees at Kennedy Space Center (KSC) after they were officially assigned to fly on Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner. The astronauts made the trip to the Florida spaceport about a week after their crew assignments were announced by NASA. They stopped by Boeing’s Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility (C3PF) at KSC and Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station to view progress on the Starliner and the launch pad. Boe, Ferguson and Mann will fly on Starliner in Boeing’s upcoming Crew Flight Test to the International Space Station (ISS). Cassada and Williams are assigned to Boeing’s first operational mission to the ISS.
Image credit: Boeing/Eric Shindelbower
Aug. 9, 2018