Boeing’s New Starliner Spacecraft Ready To Fly To ISS

According to the BBC, American giant Boeing Company, which is popular for its designs, manufactures of airplanes, satellites, rockets, will be having an important milestone test flight to the ISS. The launching will be for the vehicle Starliner without crew and is planned to take off the land at 6:36 AM ET. The launch will take place from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (Florida, USA) on Atlas rocket. 

Starliner is the second new system that NASA, the American space agency is putting much effort to restore independent access to low-Earth orbit. On the vehicle, there will be a test dummy whose name is Rosie, resembling the cultural icon of World War II Rosie The Riveter, who represented the women who worked in shipyards and factories. 

Rosie is designed with many sensors, to record the gravity that astronauts will face through, along with a set of the blue spacesuit and a red scarf with polka dots and Rosie the Riveter brands on it. The Starliner of Boeing will deliver 270 kg of supplies, mostly food, to ISS. 

In its program Commercial Commercial, NASA has got Dragon of SpaceX ($ 2.5 billion) and Starliner of Boeing ($ 4.2 billion). Both of them has helped NASA receive significant payments for space development. Crewed flights will be scheduled for launch by Boeing as well as SpaceX in the middle of the next year 2020.

Starliner will be planned for a one-week stay at the ISS before the undocking and before it starts to return back to Earth on the 28th of this December. The vehicle will prepare three parachutes to land off on a desert of New Mexico.