Dreams Become Reality for NASA’s Boeing Flight Test Crew

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams hug after arriving at the Launch and Landing Facility at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday, April 25, 2024. Photo credit: NASA/Chris Stevens

Momentum is building for NASA's Boeing Crew Flight Test launch, scheduled for Monday, May 6, 2024.

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams arrived in a T-38 jet April 25 at the Launch and Landing Facility at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida after a short flight from Ellington Field near NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

NASA leaders welcomed Wilmore and Williams and held a short news conference.

"Our hearts and souls are in this spacecraft and a little part of us will be lifting off with Butch and Suni," said NASA's Commercial Crew Program Deputy Manager Dana Hutcherson, who has been with the program for 13 years.

Wilmore and Williams are targeting 10:34 p.m. EDT Monday, May 6, for launch aboard Boeing's Starliner spacecraft and ULA's (United Launch Alliance) Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex-41 at nearby Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. This will be the first crewed flight of Starliner for NASA's Commercial Crew Program.

Click below to watch the earlier broadcast of the welcome ceremony.

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