Starliner's second crack at a key shakeout mission is underway.
NASA is relying on Starliner to add a"dissimilar redundancy" to the agency's regular rotation of crews to the ISS. Starliner's successful launch on OFT-2 puts NASA and Boeing one step closer to achieving that shared goal.
An anthropomorphic test device or flight dummy nicknamed Rosie the Rocketeer is seen strapped into a seat in Boeing's Starliner capsule. Starliner is on course to rendezvous with the space station on Friday evening . Once within range, Starliner's novel Vision-based Electro-optical Sensor Tracking Assembly, or VESTA, will lock on to the orbital lab using artificial intelligence to help guide and maneuver the spacecraft during its approach.
Following a handful of small propulsion tests, Starliner is scheduled to dock with the ISS around 7 p.m. EDT on Friday. Astronauts aboard the space station are planning to broadcast welcoming remarks before opening the hatches between Starliner and the ISS just before noon on Saturday . Crewmembers will then unload more than 400 pounds of cargo and supplies sent up for the current ISS occupants, most of it food.
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