Tag: Eric Boe

  • Boe pulled from commercial crew test flight due to medical issue

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION NASA astronaut Eric Boe poses as he exits the Boeing crew capsule mock-up at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls Eric Boe, one of three astronauts assigned to the first piloted test flight of a Boeing CST-100 Starliner commercial crew ship later this year has…

  • NASA names cadre of commercial crew astronauts

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION The four astronauts assigned to train for NASA’s commercial crew program — from top left, clockwise: Robert Behnken, Eric Boe, Sunita Williams and Douglas Hurley. Credit: NASA/Collectspace.com Four veteran astronauts have been selected to train for launch aboard new commercial crew capsules being built by Boeing and SpaceX…