NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps to make rookie spaceflight aboard Boeing’s Starliner – Space.com

NASA has added a third astronaut to the crew preparing to fly aboard the first operational mission of Boeing’s Starliner capsule
to the International Space Station: Jeanette Epps.
The mission’s departure date will depend on the progress of the vehicle’s certification process; Starliner must ace two test flights before Epps’ mission, the capsule’s first operational flight, can blast off to the space station
. The trip will be Epps’ first spaceflight; she had been assigned to launch in 2018 bu…

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