NASA, Boeing Crew Fly Jet to Florida for Starliner Launch

Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams in T-38 pre-flight activities at Ellington Field on Tuesday, August 16, 2022. Photo credit: NASA/Robert Markowitz

The two NASA astronauts that will fly aboard a new spacecraft for the first time to the International Space Station are on their way on Thursday to the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to begin final launch preparations.

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are targeting 10:34 p.m. EDT Monday, May 6, for launch of the agency's Boeing Crew Flight Testfrom Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

As retired U.S. Navy captains, Wilmore and Williams are flying on a T-38 jet from Ellington Field near NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston for the short flight to Kennedy's Launch and Landing Facility.

At 1 p.m., NASA will host a crew arrival event at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, with the following participants:

• Jennifer Kunz, associate director, NASA Kennedy
• Dana Hutcherson, deputy manager, NASA's Commercial Crew Program
• NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore
• NASA astronaut Suni Williams

The arrival will air live on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA app, YouTube, and the agency's website. Learn how to stream NASA TVthrough a variety of platforms including social media.

Following launch, the astronauts will spend about a week at the orbiting laboratory before the crew capsule makes a parachute and airbag-assisted landingin the southwestern United States.

Learn more about NASA's Boeing Crew Flight Test by following the mission blog, the commercial crew blog, @commercial_crewon X, and commercial crewon Facebook.

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