{"id":17870,"date":"2019-11-21T17:41:56","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T09:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/boeings-starliner-space-taxi-and-rosie-the-rocketeer-meet-up-with-their-rocket\/"},"modified":"2019-11-21T17:41:56","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T09:41:56","slug":"boeings-starliner-space-taxi-and-rosie-the-rocketeer-meet-up-with-their-rocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/boeings-starliner-space-taxi-and-rosie-the-rocketeer-meet-up-with-their-rocket\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing\u2019s Starliner space taxi \u2014 and Rosie the Rocketeer \u2014 meet up with their rocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_534461\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-534461\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-534461\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/191121-starliner2-630x539.jpg\" alt=\"Starliner and Atlas 5 rocket\" width=\"630\" height=\"539\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/191121-starliner2-630x539.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/191121-starliner2-1260x1078.jpg 1260w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/191121-starliner2-768x657.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/191121-starliner2-1536x1314.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/191121-starliner2-2048x1751.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-534461\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boeing\u2019s CST-100 Starliner space taxi is transported out to United Launch Alliance\u2019s vertical integration facility in Florida, where an Atlas 5 rocket is waiting. (ULA Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Boeing\u2019s CST-100 Starliner space taxi was moved to its Florida launch complex&nbsp;and set atop its United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket today in preparation for next month\u2019s uncrewed test mission to the International Space Station.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why it matters:<\/strong> NASA is paying billions of dollars to Boeing for the development of Starliner to carry astronauts to and from the station. The effort is years behind its original schedule, and it\u2019s cost more than originally planned, but Boeing\u2019s Dec. 20 test flight to and from the station is the last major hurdle before Starliner begins carrying people \u2014 presumably early next year. <strong>(Date of test flight updated on Dec. 8.)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s at stake:<\/strong> While Boeing is working on Starliner, SpaceX is working on its own Crew Dragon space taxi \u2014 which has already done an uncrewed test mission to the space station. Another Crew Dragon is being prepped for an uncrewed in-flight test of its launch abort system, and then SpaceX will be set for its own first-ever crewed flight early next year. Both companies want to get things right for the sake of future NASA contracts, and for the bragging rights that come with being the first to send astronauts in orbit on a U.S.-made spaceship since the retirement of NASA\u2019s space shuttle fleet in 2011.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Of note:<\/strong> Like SpaceX\u2019s Crew Dragon before it, Boeing\u2019s Starliner is carrying a sensor-laden test dummy \u2014 or \u201canthropomorphic test device,\u201d in NASA-speak \u2014 to give engineers a sense of what humans will experience during future flights. SpaceX\u2019s Crew Dragon mannequin was nicknamed Ripley in honor of Sigourney Weaver\u2019s character in the \u201cAlien\u201d movies. Today Boeing said its mannequin is called Rosie the Rocketeer \u2014 a tribute to World War II\u2019s Rosie the Riveter that makes a fashion statement in the form of a red polka-dotted headscarf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boeing\u2019s CST-100 Starliner space taxi is transported out to United Launch Alliance\u2019s vertical integration facility in Florida, where an Atlas 5 rocket is waiting. (ULA Photo) Boeing\u2019s CST-100 Starliner space taxi was moved to its Florida launch complex&nbsp;and set atop its United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket today in preparation for next month\u2019s uncrewed test [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[724,670,291,717,190,1306,363,750],"class_list":["post-17870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-atlas-5","tag-boeing","tag-commercial-space","tag-international-space-station","tag-nasa","tag-starliner","tag-ula","tag-united-launch-alliance"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17870"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}