The next Starliner flight, known as Starliner-1, will be used by NASA to deliver necessary cargo to the orbital laboratory and allow in-flight validation of the system upgrades implemented following the Crew Flight Test mission last year. NASA and Boeing are targeting no earlier than April 2026 to fly the uncrewed Starliner-1 pending completion of rigorous test, certification, and mission readiness activities.
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Looking forward to OFT-3!
Go Starliner, go Boeing!
They are certifying it even though its never flown a successful mission? Even now they are getting a free ride.
Don’t know how Boeing does that final flight without a 4th rocket they can use though.
They’ve had a lot of issues, mostly valves recently though. Although it’s a tough nut to crack I am hopeful they can iron out the issues.
Look, I know SpaceX gets a lot of glaze, including from me.
But, in all seriousness, why not just cancel Starliner at this point and use SpaceX? Is the contract so ironclad that there is no “escape clause” NASA can invoke to just… stop? It seems entirely pointless to give Starliner life support when the ISS is slated to be decommissioned soon.
So Boeing goes from 6 to 4 flights, of which one is unscrewed.
This probably means SpaceX gets the 3 remaining crewed flights.
This whole ordeal is why redundancy in crewed vehicles is so important. With that said, I wish we got the timeline where SNC won the contract over boeing. I’d love to see a crewed DreamChaser performing crew rotations. Small spaceplanes have a lot of potential
I’m very glad to see NASA prioritize safety and not take any unnecessary risks. After the last flight it would’ve been too risky to fly crew on it, a fully successful uncrewed mission is definitely needed.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
|Fewer Letters|More Letters|
|——-|———|—|
|CST|(Boeing) Crew Space Transportation capsules|
| |Central Standard Time (UTC-6)|
|[IDSS](/r/Space/comments/1p5ot6m/stub/nqm2s9t “Last usage”)|[International Docking System Standard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Docking_System_Standard)|
|[LEO](/r/Space/comments/1p5ot6m/stub/nqmqs5o “Last usage”)|Low Earth Orbit (180-2000km)|
| |Law Enforcement Officer (most often mentioned during transport operations)|
|[OFT](/r/Space/comments/1p5ot6m/stub/nqkja4j “Last usage”)|Orbital Flight Test|
|[SLS](/r/Space/comments/1p5ot6m/stub/nqm75oy “Last usage”)|Space Launch System heavy-lift|
|[SNC](/r/Space/comments/1p5ot6m/stub/nqknzv7 “Last usage”)|Sierra Nevada Corporation|
|[STS](/r/Space/comments/1p5ot6m/stub/nqm75oy “Last usage”)|Space Transportation System (*Shuttle*)|
|Jargon|Definition|
|——-|———|—|
|[Starliner](/r/Space/comments/1p5ot6m/stub/nqmqs5o “Last usage”)|Boeing commercial crew capsule [CST-100](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_CST-100_Starliner)|
|Event|Date|Description|
|——-|———|—|
|[CRS-2](/r/Space/comments/1p5ot6m/stub/nqkrc44 “Last usage”)|2013-03-01|F9-005, Dragon cargo; final flight of Falcon 9 v1.0|
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It appears that with this announcement, crewed CCP missions to the ISS tentatively look like this:
* SpX Crew 12 – March/April 2026
* SpX Crew 13 – October 2026
* Starliner 2 – April 2027
* SpX Crew 14 – October 2027
* Starliner 3 – April 2028
* SpX Crew 15 – October 2028
* Starliner 4 – April 2029
* SpX Crew 14 – October 2029
* SpX Crew 15 – April 2030
The crew exchange dates might change depending on how long NASA desires the missions to be.