Boeing Starliner-1


Boeing Starliner-1 is the first operational crewed mission of the Boeing CST-100 Starliner to the International Space Station, and is planned to be the fourth orbital flight mission of the Starliner overall. It is scheduled for launch in 2021 with a crew of four. It will transport members of a future ISS Expedition to the ISS. This would only be the fourth US spaceflight with a female commander, after STS-93, STS-114, and STS-120.

Crew

As this marks the first operational flight of Starliner, a Russian cosmonaut is not expected to be on board as Roscosmos has stated they do not want to put Russian cosmonauts on either Starliner or Crew Dragon until they have flown successful USCV flights. The fourth seat is likely to be taken by a third NASA or second international partner astronaut, as will happen with USCV-1.

Mission

This mission will be the first reuse of a Starliner spacecraft. The vehicle was previously used for the first uncrewed Orbital Flight Test mission in December 2019. On December 22, 2019, commander Sunita Williams announced the name "Calypso" for the spacecraft.