Mission update: Starliner's first astronaut mission to the International Space Station

On June 5, 2024, Boeing's Starliner made history as the sixth crewed spacecraft to launch NASA astronauts from U.S. soil. The mission called the "Crew Flight Test" saw the spacecraft dock with "the big city in the sky," as mission commander Butch Wilmore calls it, on June 6. Since then, the crew has been performing checkouts of the vehicle, including the "safe haven" protocol, offering a look around the capsule and lending a hand with on orbit science.
In this mission update, Spaceflight Now's Will Robinson-Smith provides a recap of the mission thus far and what's still to come before Wilmore and CFT pilot Suni Williams return to Earth.
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[@sandramoran76]

🎉 Her excitement was awesome. ❤

[@randallparr135]

They still need to get back.

[@ryann6919]

butch and suni sound like they're having so much fun

[@jgt4862]

Corporate Welfare Queen, Boeing, after billions of dollars given and years behind schedule FINALLY made it to ISS!

[@thomasboese3793]

Twice the money, a long head start on the others (SpaceX, Dream Chaser), only 1 ship (5 dragons {Heck dragon comes as crew/cargo versions}/1+ Dream Chaser) and several crew flights have been taken from Boeing and put into the hands of SpaceX. Boeing is still using 60s-era tech, Dream Chaser, and SpaceX has pushed far into the future.
I'm grateful the Starliner crew is safe, happy, and eager to get to work. The management at Boeing needs to divorce the holdovers from the McDonnell Douglas merger of 1997 and get their act together.

[@jgt4862]

@@thomasboese3793 Just think where we would be if NASA had awarded all that money for DreamChaser!

[@user-fr3hy9uh6y]

Several other news agencies are reporting an oxidizer valve that is not properly closed. Are there any updates?

[@jonesjoyce1215]

Congratulations to the great team, great journey, good work, and gratitude to everyone! 👏👏👏💝🌹🌟🗽💥🚀☺️

[@jonesjoyce1215]

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[@BARBARADAMATO-g3l]

I sure hope they are able to bring them home safe and sound within rhe next few days.

[@Denise-ij3tl]

.. just brilliant .. us humans can really do anything .. how far we've come .. God Speed 🙏🌠

[@waija9422]

I can see the crew members are full of confidence, I believe it is no problem for starliner return to earth