NASA, Boeing to Update Media on Starliner Crew Flight Test Tonight

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with Boeing's Starliner spacecraft aboard is seen on the launch pad at Space Launch Complex-41 on Sunday, May 5, 2024 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Photo Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky

NASA, Boeing, and United Launch Alliance will host a news conference at 10:30 p.m. EDT to discuss Monday's scrubbed launch attempt of the agency's Crew Flight Test due to a faulty oxygen relief valve observation on the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket Centaur second stage. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams exited the Starliner spacecraft at Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida and returned to astronaut crew quarters.

NASA will provide news conference coverage on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA app, YouTube, and the agency's website.

The following will participate in the news conference:

• Ken Bowersox, associate administrator, NASA's Space Operations Mission Directorate
• Steve Stich, manager, NASA's Commercial Crew Program
• Dana Weigel, manager, International Space Station Program at NASA
• Mark Nappi, vice president and program manager, Commercial Crew Program, Boeing
• Tory Bruno, president and CEO, United Launch Alliance

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

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