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Boeing Starliner-1
Calypso Starliner capsule postflight.jpg
Calypso being processed at Boeing's Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility in January 2020
Mission type Crewed mission to ISS
Operator Boeing
Mission duration 180 days (planned)
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft Starliner Calypso
Manufacturer Boeing
Launch mass 13,000 kg (29,000 lb)
Start of mission
Launch date March 2023 (planned)
Rocket Atlas V N22
Launch site Cape Canaveral, SLC-41
Contractor United Launch Alliance
End of mission
Landing date NET 2023
Orbital parameters
Reference system Geocentric orbit
Regime Low Earth orbit
Inclination 51.66°
Docking with ISS
Docking port Harmony forward or zenith
Time docked 180 days (planned)
Commercial Crew Program
← TBA
TBA →

Boeing Starliner-1 is planned to be the first operational crew mission of the Boeing Starliner to the International Space Station (ISS), and would be the fourth orbital flight mission of the Starliner overall. It is scheduled for launch no earlier than March 2023, as SpaceX Crew-5 is due to launch in the fall of 2022. It would transport members of a future ISS Expedition to the ISS. This would only be the fifth U.S. spaceflight with a female commander, after STS-93, STS-114, STS-120 and SpaceX Crew-5. However, continued international collaboration on ISS missions has been thrown into doubt by the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and related sanctions on Russia.

Crew

As this marks the first operational flight of Starliner, a Russian cosmonaut is not expected to be on board as Roscosmos has stated they do not want to put Russian cosmonauts on either Starliner or Crew Dragon until they have flown successful Commercial Crew Program flights. On 21 May 2021 NASA announced JAXA astronaut Koichi Wakata as the fourth member of the crew, in cooperation with JAXA as NASA's international partner but in October 2021 reassigned him to the September 2022 SpaceX Crew-5 mission.

On 18 April 2022,NASA said that it has not finalized which of the cadre of Starliner astronauts, including Barry Wilmore, Michael Fincke, and Sunita Williams, will actually fly on the CFT mission or the first operational Starliner mission.

Prime crew
Position Crew member
Commander United States TBA, NASA
Third spaceflight
Pilot United States TBA, NASA
Mission Specialist 1 United States Jeanette Epps, NASA
First spaceflight
Mission Specialist 2 TBA

Mission

This mission will be the first reuse of a Starliner spacecraft. The vehicle was initially flown as the first uncrewed Orbital Flight Test mission in December 2019. On 22 December 2019, commander Sunita Williams announced the name "Calypso" for the spacecraft. Calypso will now be used for Boe-CFT as Spacecraft 2 is used for Starliner Orbital Flight Test-2.

Jeanette Epps was added to the Starliner-1 mission on 25 August 2020. Koichi Wakata was officially added to the Starliner-1 mission on 21 May 2021 but then reassigned to SpaceX Crew-5 mission in October 2021.

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