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NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test Access Arm Retracts [1]

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Date: 2024-06-01  

We’re just minutes away from liftoff of NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test that will send NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to the International Space Station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program.

At Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, the crew access arm has retracted on the crew access tower.

The crew access arm lines up with the hatch of Boeing’s Starliner capsule, and it’s designed to rotate and retract at various speeds. The arm provides entry and emergency egress for astronauts and technicians into and out of the spacecraft.

Liftoff of Boeing’s Starliner atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket remains on track for 12:25 p.m. EDT.

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[1] Url: https://blogs.nasa.gov/kennedy/2024/06/01/nasas-boeing-crew-flight-test-access-arm-retracts/

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