FIRST SPACE-READY STARLINER GETS NAME

Hey Space Placers!

Hope the holidays are treating you well.

Boeing's CST-100 Starliner returned safely to Earth last Sunday in a land-based touchdown.

Starliner Calypso
(Image: © NASA/Bill Ingalls)

• Although the spacecraft suffered an anomaly that kept it from achieving the proper orbit to dock with the International Space Station - see previous blog - the successful touchdown was a BIG step forward.

The reusable spacecraft was given a name - Calypso- by the astronaut that will command the first Starliner crewed mission set for an undetermined launch date.

Sky Guy in VA