Photo of the Day: Starliner Has Moved One Step Closer to the Launch Pad for OFT-2...

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Earlier today, technicians transported Boeing's CST-100 Starliner from its Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center to Space Launch Complex (SLC)-41 at nearby Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Once it was brought to SLC-41's Vertical Integration Facility, Starliner was hoisted up and mated to its Atlas V rocket—which will send the capsule on its journey to the International Space Station (ISS) on July 30. Orbital Flight Test (OFT)-2 is scheduled to lift off at 2:53 PM, Eastern Daylight Time (11:53 AM, Pacific Daylight Time) that day...with Starliner docking at the ISS on July 31. The mission will last up to five days, with the CST-100 touching down at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico on August 4.

If OFT-2 is successful, Crew Flight Test-1 is set to lift off later this year...though a launch date in early 2022 is a stronger possibility for this mission. Stay tuned.