Flight directors discuss NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test and the operations behind this historic mission. HWHAP Episode 331.
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Welcome to the official podcast of the NASA Johnson Space center, episode 331 cft the mission.
I'm Leah Cheshire, and I'll be your host today on this podcast, we bring in the experts, scientists, engineers and astronauts all to let you know what's going on in the world of human spaceflight and more.
NASA's Boeing crew flight test, or CFT, will be the first flight of humans on a brand new spacecraft.
NASA astronauts Sunita, or Sunny Williams and Barry, or Butch Wilmore will be the first human passengers on Starliner.
They they will launch aboard a United launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
Their destination is the International Space Station, where they are slated to live and work for about a week.
They will evaluate Starliner and its systems before returning to Earth for landing on land in the western United States.
Teams from Boeing and NASA will staff the mission control rooms here at Johnson Space center.
Throughout the flight, NASA flight directors Mike Lammers callsign Saturn flight and Ed van Sise callsign carbon flight have been working with the Boeing teams over the last several years and will serve as flight directors for the Starliner spacecraft.
We sat down to talk with them about the mission, their roles, and what it's like to work in mission control with a commercial spacecraft.
Let's get started.
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Hi, Mike and Ed.
Thank you so much for joining us.
Today on Houston, we have a podcast.
Good afternoon.
Good to be here.
Well, glad to be here.