Boeing’s Starliner Safely Lands on Earth – Completing Critical Test Flight to Space Station
NASA and Boeing successfully landed the company’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft Wednesday, May 25, 2022, in the desert of the western United States, completing the uncrewed Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) to the International Space Station (ISS) to help establish that the system is ready to fly astronauts.
About four hours after departing the orbital outpost, Starliner touched down onto its airbags at 4:49 p.m. MDT (6:49 p.m. EDT), wrapping up the six-day flight, which tested the end-to-end capabilities of the crew-capable spacecraft. The landing followed a deorbit burn at 4:05 p.m., separation of the spacecraft’s service module, and successful deployment of its three main parachutes and six airbags.
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