Boeing Starliner undergoes rigorous testing in run-up to first flight BY DAN RALEY | PHOTOS BY BOB FERGUSON tarliner lifts off the ground at Kennedy Space Center. Yet the Boeing-built spacecraft— S upper and lower crew module domes detached—is surrounded by a dozen watchful technicians rather than a launch pad. There is no cascading roar, just repetitive beeping from equipment easing things into place. A crane raises the top half of Starliner’s original test article in the air before gently lowering and attaching it to the bottom half inside Boeing’s production facility in central Florida, marking a milestone event 18 | BOEING FRONTIERS
Frontiers October 2016 Issue
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