{"id":87326,"date":"2019-02-02T07:26:38","date_gmt":"2019-02-02T15:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/boeings-starliner-spacecraft-will-be-ready-for-1st-test-flight-in-march"},"modified":"2019-02-02T07:26:38","modified_gmt":"2019-02-02T15:26:38","slug":"boeings-starliner-spacecraft-will-be-ready-for-1st-test-flight-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/boeings-starliner-spacecraft-will-be-ready-for-1st-test-flight-in-march","title":{"rendered":"Boeing\u2019s Starliner Spacecraft Will Be Ready for 1st Test Flight in March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/boeings-starliner-spacecraft-will-be-ready-for-1st-test-flight-in-march2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Boeing is on track to launch its new astronaut taxi to the International Space Station (ISS) next month.<\/p>\n<p>Along with SpaceX, the private spaceflight company was contracted by NASA to begin launching astronauts from U.S. soil again for the first time since the space shuttle program ended in 2011. Boeing\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/19367-boeing-cst-100.html\">CST-100 Starliner<\/a> won\u2019t be taking any astronauts along for its first flight to the ISS, however. After docking robotically with the orbiting lab, it will return to Earth for a parachute landing in Texas.<\/p>\n<p>If this test flight goes according to plan, Boeing will be ready to launch its first crew of astronauts to the space station in August, Boeing spokesperson Maribeth Davis told <a href=\"http:\/\/Space.com\">Space.com<\/a> during a presentation of Boeing\u2019s future vision for space travel here. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/41360-how-boeing-starliner-commercial-spacecraft-works.html\">How Boeing\u2019s Commercial CST-100 Starliner Spacecraft Works<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/43207-boeing-starliner-ready-march-2019-test-flight.html\">https:\/\/www.space.com\/43207-boeing-starliner-ready-march-2019-test-flight.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Boeing is on track to launch its new astronaut taxi to the International Space Station (ISS) next month. Along with SpaceX, the private spaceflight company was contracted by NASA to begin launching astronauts from U.S. soil again for the first time since the space shuttle program ended in 2011. Boeing\u2019s CST-100 Starliner won\u2019t [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}