A social media panel discussion takes place at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday, May 3, 2024, ahead of NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test. Participants, from left to right are Antonia Jaramillo, NASA Communications; Jim Free, NASA associate administrator; Ian Kappes, deputy launch vehicle office manager, NASA’s Commercial Crew Program; Amy Comeau Denker, Starliner associate chief engineer, Boeing; Caleb Weiss, system engineering & test leader, ULA (United Launch Alliance); and Jennifer Buchli, chief scientist, NASA’s International Space Station Program. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are the first to launch aboard Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft atop a ULA Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Liftoff is scheduled for 4:43 p.m. ET on Tuesday, May 21.

From left to right, Ian Kappes, deputy launch vehicle office manager, NASA Kennedy Space Center Commercial Crew Program; Steve Stich, manager, NASA’s Commercial Crew Program; Mark Nappi, vice president and program manager, Boeing Commercial Crew Program; Leroy Cain, mission integration and operations manager, Boeing’s Commercial Crew Program; Dana Hutcherson, deputy program manager, NASA’s Commercial Crew Program; and Richard Jones, deputy program manager, NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, prepare to raise NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test flag on Thursday, April 25, 2024, near the countdown clock at the Press Site at the Florida spaceport. As part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are the first to launch to the International Space Station aboard Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex-41 at nearby Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Liftoff is scheduled for 10:34 p.m. ET on Monday, May 6.