CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -What You Need to Know about NASA’s Boeing Orbital Flight Test-2. NASA and Boeing are taking another major step on the path to regular human spaceflight to the International Space Station using American rockets to launch spacecraft from American soil with the second uncrewed test flight of a commercial crew spacecraft.

Detailed explanation-2: -Boeing Starliner’s 1st NASA astronaut delayed to February 2023. Boeing’s first flight of its Starliner spacecraft for humans will wait a few more months. The flight will now launch no earlier than February 2023 due to the need to address issues identified on Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2).

Detailed explanation-3: -Under a Funded Space Act Agreement, Boeing will work with NASA to build, test, and fly a full-scale demonstrator aircraft and validate technologies aimed at lowering emissions.

Detailed explanation-4: -OFT-2, using Starliner Spacecraft 2, launched 19 May 2022 and lasted 6 days. Starliner successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on 21 May 2022.