Preparations for NASA’s Boeing Starliner Crew Flight Test Launch are in progress.
Launch time: 12:25 pm ET
"The two NASA astronauts aboard, flight commander Butch Wilmore and pilot Suni Williams, will test the end-to-end capabilities of the Starliner system, including launch, docking, and return to Earth. After a one-week stay docked to the International Space Station, the Starliner and crew will land under parachutes in the western United States."
9:30 a.m. EDT – Arrival coverage begins.
12:15 p.m. – Targeted docking to the forward-facing port of the ISS Harmony module
2 p.m. – Hatch opening
2:20 p.m. – Welcome remarks
3:30 p.m. – Post-docking news conference at NASA’s Johnson Space Center.
This flat terrain reminds me of the race around north Seitah, where we saw #Perseverance driving in excess of 200m and even 250m almost every sol, on its way to the Three Forks area.
Processed, undistorted, leveled NAVCAM_RIGHT mosaic
looking W (270°) from RMC 52.5844
Sol 1170, LMST: 14:39:14
Boeing's Starliner spacecraft with two NASA astronauts launches successfully from Florida.
CBS News reports: "The long-awaited flight marked the first launch of an Atlas 5 with astronauts aboard and the first for the Atlas family of rockets since astronaut Gordon Cooper took off just a few miles away on the Mercury program's final flight 61 years ago."
NASA fährt Aktivität von "Hubble"-Teleskop herunter
Seit fast 35 Jahren umkreist das "Hubble"-Teleskop die Erde - doch die Altersschwäche der Technik macht sich bemerkbar. Die NASA schaltet nun einige Instrumente zur Ausrichtung des Observatoriums ab, um es länger betreiben zu können.