Boeing Crewed Flight Test

Boe-CFT

CFT (now OFT-2) Starliner under construction in 2018
Operator	NASA Boeing
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft type	Boeing Starliner
Manufacturer	Boeing
Crew
Crew size	3
Members	Christopher J. Ferguson E. Michael Fincke Nicole V. Aunapu Mann
Start of mission
Launch date	2021
Rocket	Atlas V N22
Launch site	Cape Canaveral SLC-41
Orbital parameters
Reference system	Geocentric
Regime	Low Earth
Inclination	51.6 degrees
Docking with ISS
Time docked	Two weeks to six months
Commercial Crew Development   Boeing Starliner flights

Boeing Crew Flight Test (also known as Boe-CFT) will be the first crewed mission of the Boeing CST-100 Starliner to the International Space Station, and the third orbital flight test of the Starliner overall after the two uncrewed flight tests, OFT-1 and OFT-2. Its launch date is currently unclear. It will fly with a crew of two NASA astronauts and one Boeing astronaut, who will remain aboard the ISS for an extended test flight.

Crew

Position	Crew member
Spacecraft Commander	Christopher Ferguson, Boeing Fourth spaceflight
TBD	Michael Fincke, NASA Fourth spaceflight
TBD	Nicole Aunapu Mann, NASA First spaceflight

Barry E. Wilmore will serve as backup for both Boe-CFT and for the first Starliner mission crews. Due to medical reasons, Eric Boe, who was originally assigned to the mission in August 2018 was replaced by Michael Fincke on January 22, 2019. Boe will replace Fincke as the assistant to the chief for commercial crew in the astronaut office at NASA's Johnson Space Center. Nicole Mann will become the first woman to fly on the maiden crewed flight of an American spacecraft.

Backup crew

Position	Crew member
Spacecraft Commander	Sunita Williams, NASA Third spaceflight
TBD	Josh A. Cassada, NASA First spaceflight
TBD	Barry Wilmore, NASA Third spaceflight

Mission

The third Atlas V N22 rocket variant will launch the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft with a crew of three to four. The vehicle will dock with the International Space Station, and return to Earth under parachutes for a ground-landing in the United States. Originally the mission was scheduled to fly a shorter mission of about two weeks, although it had been speculated for sometime that, due to delays to the Commercial Crew Program Boe-CFT would be extended to a full-fledged ISS crew rotation mission. In April 2019 NASA announced the mission had been fully extended to a crew rotation mission. This will be the first launch of a crewed spacecraft by an Atlas V rocket, and alongside Crew Dragon Demo-2, one of the first two crewed orbital flights from the United States after the Space Shuttle was retired in 2011.

See also

• Commercial Crew Development
• Dragon 2
• Crew Dragon Demo-2, SpaceX's first crewed mission of their capsule

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