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Boeing Starliner OFT-2 Readiness Media Teleconference
Atlas V N22 | CST-100 Starliner Orbital Flight Test 2 (OFT-2)
NASA and Boeing will hold a media teleconference following the Flight Readiness Review for the agency’s Boeing Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2), the second uncrewed flight test of the company’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft for the agency’s Commercial Crew Program.
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Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
This is the second uncrewed test flight for the Starliner spacecraft. Reflight of the OFT mission will allow Boeing to demonstrate readiness of the spacecraft and implement corrections to the problems which were found during the first OFT flight.
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