Boeing OFT-2 Post Launch News Conference

In the Press Site auditorium of NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, officials from NASA, Boeing, and United Launch Alliance (ULA) participate in a postlaunch news conference following the liftoff of NASA Boeing’s Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) on May 19, 2022. From left are Jasmine Hopkins, NASA Communications; Kathryn Lueders, associate administrator, Space Operations Mission Directorate at NASA; Steve Stich, manager, NASA Commercial Crew Program; Joel Montalbano, manager, NASA’s International Space Station Program; Mark Nappi, vice president and program manager, Boeing Commercial Crew Program; John Elbon, chief operating officer, United Launch Alliance. Liftoff occurred at 6:54 p.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex-41 at Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Boeing’s uncrewed flight test is designed to test the system’s end-to-end capabilities for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program providing valuable data towards NASA certifying Boeing’s crew transportation system for regular crewed flights to and from the International Space Station.

In the Press Site auditorium of NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, officials from NASA, Boeing, and United Launch Alliance (ULA) participate in a postlaunch news conference following the liftoff of NASA Boeing’s Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) on May 19, 2022. From left are Jasmine Hopkins, NASA Communications; Kathryn Lueders, associate administrator, Space Operations Mission Directorate at NASA; Steve Stich, manager, NASA Commercial Crew Program; Joel Montalbano, manager, NASA’s International Space Station Program; Mark Nappi, vice president and program manager, Boeing Commercial Crew Program; John Elbon, chief operating officer, United Launch Alliance. Liftoff occurred at 6:54 p.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex-41 at Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Boeing’s uncrewed flight test is designed to test the system’s end-to-end capabilities for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program providing valuable data towards NASA certifying Boeing’s crew transportation system for regular crewed flights to and from the International Space Station.

Photographer NASA/Kim Shiflett
Album Boeing_OFT_2