Boeing's CST-100 Starliner, which failed to reach the International Space Station after its launch on Friday (Dec. 20) will return to Earth Sunday (Dec. 20). Watch it live in the window above, courtesy of NASA TV.
The Starliner spacecraft will land at White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico at 7:57 a.m. EST (1257 GMT), and NASA's live coverage begins at 6:45 a.m. EST (1145 GMT). The landing will come six days earlier than planned after an anomaly during launch left the uncrewed Starliner, the first of its kind, in the wrong orbit and unable to fly to the International Space Station as planned.
NASA and Boeing will host a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EST Saturday, Dec. 21, to discuss the status of the Boeing Orbital Flight Test, and the test objectives that have been, and are expected to be, accomplished related to NASA’s Commercial Crew Program.
Audio of the teleconference will stream live online at:
https://www.nasa.gov/live
The uncrewed Boeing Starliner spacecraft launched on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at 6:36 a.m. Friday, from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on a flight test to the International Space Station. The Starliner did not reach the planned orbit and will not dock to the space station. Teams worked quickly to ensure the spacecraft was in a stable orbit and preserved enough fuel for a landing opportunity. Boeing, in coordination with NASA and the U.S. Army, is working to return Starliner to land in White Sands, New Mexico, on Sunday, Dec. 22.
Participants in the briefing will be:
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine
Jim Chilton, senior vice president of Boeing’s Space and Launch Division
Steve Stich, deputy manager of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program
To participate in the teleconference, media must contact Karen Northon at karen.northon@nasa.gov by 1 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 21, for dial-in information.
To watch Friday’s full postlaunch news conference, visit:
https://go.nasa.gov/2Z6GbeG
For more information about NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, visit:
https://www.nasa.gov/commercialcrew
For the latest information from Boeing, visit:
https://www.starlinerupdates.com
You can watch live, high-definition views of Earth from the International Space Station thanks to NASA's High Definition Earth Viewing experiment (HDEV). This live video provides alternating views from four of the station's external cameras nearly 24/7, with the exception of regular and temporary dropouts that occur when the station switches its connection between different communications satellites. Watch it live in the window above, courtesy of NASA TV.
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