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Boeing's Starliner Launch to the International Space Station

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Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft launched aboard an Atlas V rocket on an Orbital Flight Test at 6:36 a.m. EST, Friday, Dec. 20, 2019. The spacecraft had an off-nominal orbit insertion, but was placed in a safe orbit and configuration and landed at White Sands, New Mexico on Dec. 22. Watch the landing:    • Boeing Starliner Orbital Flight Test ...   ...more
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Atlas Launch Control

3:00

The Atlas 5 Rocket

5:54

Crew Module

6:22

Pad Team

9:10

Control Rooms

9:59

Launch Conductor Is Lewis Atchison

10:09

Purchase Seats on Soyuz

14:57

Learn More about Starliner

17:21

Where Starliner Is Going To Land

17:52

Weather Update

26:37

The Atlas 5 Being Stacked at the Vertical Integration Facility

28:30

Launch and Ascent Phases

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The International Space Station a Football-Field-Sized Million Pound Laboratory Flying around Planet Earth at 17 , 500 Miles per Hour It's Our Home in Low-Earth Orbit and the Bridge to Exploring the Far Reaches of Our Solar System a Place To Learn What It Takes To Live To Work To Thrive in Space Thanks to Space Agencies Representing More than a Dozen Countries around the World It Went from the Drawing Board to Liftoff When the First Piece Flew into Space in 1998 That Kicked Off over a Decade of Construction Hauling the Station To Orbit Piece by Piece on Nasa's Space Shuttle and Russian Rockets

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We Started an Unbroken Streak of Humans Living and Working in Space Building on the Legacy of Past Outposts like Skylab and Mir the International Space Station Became the Training Ground for Humanity's Next Great Journeys Learning How To Live in Space for Extreme Periods of Time Building and Perfecting the Technologies Necessary To Travel to Our Neighbors in the Solar System It Gave Us a Place Right on Our Doorstep To Prepare for the Next Giant Leap into the Unknown and Thanks to the Station a New Era and Outer Space Is Unfolding What Was Once the Domain of Only Nations and Governments Is Now Populated by a Growing Space Fleet from American Industry Private Spacecraft To Fly Cargo

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The International Space Station Is What We Can Achieve as a Planet When We Come Together To Do the Things That Are Hard and the Work Isn't Slowing Down because We'Re Ready for the Next Giant Leap because We'Re Ready To Go Farther because What We Do and Learn along the Way Is for the Benefit of all of Humankind and You Really Get an Idea from that of the Importance of the Research and the Benefit from the International Space Station every Day Astronauts Living Up There Doing Their Experiments There Is Nowhere like Space To Test the Systems That Astronauts Will Rely on When They Go to the Moon

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And that's Dependent on Our Our Launch Window but Today's Built-In Hold in the Built-In Hole That We'Re Going To Use for Commercial Crew Missions Is Four Hours and that during that Time Is the Time When the Boeing Team Goes Back Out and Finishes Loading Up that Cargo into the Starliner As Well as that's When They Launched or Load the Astronauts As Well those Are All the Processes That the Team Has Checked Out Today of Course all That Is Wrapped Up and Done so the Remaining Work We Have Ahead of Us Here or We'Re Going To Be Closing Out Our Prop and Hydraulic Systems Get those Configured for Flight the Avionics Team Will Be Taking the Final Upper-Level Wind Data Loading that into Our Avionics System so that the Rocket Can Steer Appropriately through or through the Atmosphere with the Upper Level Winds

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We Have a Few Minutes Now To Answer More of Your Questions about Starliner We Have One from Ingram Wants To Know You Have Certain Weight Concerns Obviously So How Do You Take into Account the Weight of the Paint Used on Starliner so of Course every Pound Matters on a Spacecraft and that's Why We Didn't Use Too Much Paint That We Don't Need if You Can You Know Tell on the Vehicle There's some some Style Paintings on There the Nasa Logo the Boeing Logo those Kind of Cool-Marks around the Top but that's the Only Paint That You Know Starliner Doesn't Need that Gray Paint Covering Is Actually There for Thermal Properties

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Rd-180 Has Gone Back up to Full Thrust as Expected Engine Response Looks Good One Minute 50 Second 10 Atlas Is Now 17 Miles in Altitude 11 and a Half Miles Downrange Distance Traveling at 2 , 300 Miles per Hour Now Passing Two Minutes into Flight Rd-180 Engine Operating Parameters Continue To Look Good at Full Thrust and at 2 Minutes 11 Seconds into Flight the Atlas Rocket Now Weighs Just One Half of What It Did at Launch Burning Propellant at a Rate of 2 , 800 Pounds per Second

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And at 2 Minutes 11 Seconds into Flight the Atlas Rocket Now Weighs Just One Half of What It Did at Launch Burning Propellant at a Rate of 2 , 800 Pounds per Second and We'Ve Seen Good Indication of Jettison of both Solid Rocket Boosters Vehicles Gone Too Close with Guidance Now Just under Two Minutes Remaining in the Booster Phase of Flight Two Minutes 35 Seconds into Flight Rd-180 Continues To Perform Well Engines Now Throttling Down Slightly Engine Response Looks Good and Atlas 5 Is Now Traveling at over 5 Times the Speed of Sound since Our Reaction Control System Is Now Pressurizing to Flight Levels System Response Looks

1:06:50

One Minute Remaining until Engine Cutoff Body Rate Responses Continue To Look Good throughout the Booster Phase of Flight and Rd-180 Is Now Throttling To Maintain a Constant 3 5 G Xl Eration Limit Engine Responses Will all Look Good Three Minutes 55 Seconds into Flight and Centaur Has Begun the Boost Phase Chill down Sequence 20 Seconds To Be Co Rd-180 Continuing To Look Good as It Throttles To Maintain that Constant 3 5 G Xl Eration Limit Atlas Pu Has Gone to Open-Loop in Preparation for Biko

1:08:09

We'Ve Been through a Successful Booster Stage Separation Centaur Continues To Propel Starliner a Next Major Milestone Will Be Main Engine Cutoff at 11 Minutes and 58 Seconds both Centaur Rl10 Engines Are Continuing To Perform Well throughout the Burn Chamber Pressures Look Good and Now Coming Up on Nine Minutes into Flight Centaur Is 101 Miles in Altitude 1 , 200 Miles Downrange Distance Traveling at Fourteen Thousand Three Hundred Miles per Hour Now the Two Control Rooms You Are Looking at on the Left That Is You Ole's Denver Operations Control Center They Are a Backup Control Room for the Control Room on the Right Which Is the Actual Atlas Spaceflight Operations Center

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Now Star Liner Will Stay Attached to Centaur Again until About 15 Minutes Expected To Separate at 14 Minutes and 58 Seconds after Liftoff and that Will Be the First Time Starliner Free Flies in Orbit and at that Point Richard Jones and His Team in Houston Will Have Full Control over the Vehicle and They Will Set It Up for an Orbital Insertion Burn That Will Take Place 16 Minutes after Separation Approximately Two Minutes Now Remaining until oft Capsule Separation Body Rate Responses Continue To Look Very Stable throughout this Coast so You'Re Looking at the Boeing Mission Control Center There at this Point They Have Transitioned to a Mission

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They'Ll Fire for About 40 Seconds Setting Star Liner on the Right Path Not Only for Docking with the Space Station but Also a Series of Demonstrations That Star We'Ll Perform before Docking and those Demonstrations Will Prove that Starliner Is Ready To Safely Dock with the Space Station They Actually Began on the Launch Pad When We Performed a Check To Make Sure that Star Liners Gps and Navigation Systems Agreed that It Was Indeed on the Launch Pad after the Upcoming Orbital Insertion Burns the Demonstrations Will Continue so that Ground Controllers Can Ensure that the Spacecraft Systems Are Functioning Correctly

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I Know that You and Chris Ferguson Have Been Very Close through this Entire Process and I Know that He Asked You To Create the Launch Procedures Can You Give Us some some Details about that Sure I Think as You all Know Chris Has a Very Vested Interest and How the Launch Procedures Were Put Together I Started with a Program Probably Out Seven Years Ago about a Year in I Was Still a Flight Test Engineer on the Program I Happened To Run into Chris On in the Elevator on the Way To Work One Morning and Quite Frankly I Didn't Know He Knew My Name but He Said Hey Lois

1:24:02

Control Room

1:34:01

Starliner Mission Control

1:51:35
Boeing's Starliner Launch to the International Space Station
Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft launched aboard an Atlas V rocket on an Orbital Flight Test at 6:36 a.m. EST, Friday, Dec. 20, 2019. The spacecraft had an off-nominal orbit insertion, but was placed in a safe orbit and configuration and landed at White Sands, New Mexico on Dec. 22. Watch the landing:    • Boeing Starliner Orbital Flight Test ...  

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