Space

NASA to Offer Team Trip Test Status Update

.NASA will certainly throw a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT, Wednesday, Aug. 14, to offer an improve on the organization's Boeing Team Flight Test. Mission managers remain to examine the Starliner space capsule's preparedness in advance of decisional appointments no earlier than next week regarding the come back of NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore and also Suni Williams.Audio of the teleconference will flow live on the organization's internet site at:.https://www.nasa.gov/nasatv.Participants consist of:.Ken Bowersox, associate supervisor, NASA's Room Operations Goal Directorate.Joel Montalbano, replacement colleague administrator, NASA's Area Functions Purpose Directorate.Russ DeLoach, main, NASA's Office of Security and Objective Affirmation.NASA main astronaut Joe Acaba.Emily Nelson, chief tour supervisor, NASA's Tour Workflow Directorate.To ask concerns during the course of the tele-conference, media need to RSVP zero later than pair of hrs just before the begin of the call to Jimi Russell at: james.j.russell@nasa.gov. NASA's media certification plan is actually offered online.NASA's Boeing Workers Tour Examination launched on June 5 on a ULA (United Introduce Collaboration) Atlas V rocket coming from Space Introduce Complex-41 at Peninsula Canaveral Area Force Terminal in Florida. It is actually an end-to-end test of the Starliner device as aspect of the agency's Business Crew Program. Via relationship along with American personal business, NASA levels accessibility to reduced Planet orbit and also the space station to even more folks, scientific research, and industrial opportunities.For NASA's blog as well as additional info about the purpose, visit:.https://www.nasa.gov/commercialcrew.- end-.Josh Finch/ Jimi RussellHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1100joshua.a.finch@nasa.gov/ james.j.russell@nasa.gov.Courtney Beasley/ Leah CheshierJohnson Space Facility, Houston281-483-5111courtney.m.beasley@nasa.gov/ leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov.