This flight is historic because after this flight, Sunita Williams has become the first woman to go on such a mission. This mission is a crew flight test that was launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Before this, Space X’s Crew Dragon capsule has been the only spacecraft that has flown for NASA to send astronauts to the Space Station (ISS). But Starliner has also now been launched into its competition. And Sunita Williams has become the first female crew member to fly it.
This is Sunita Williams’ third flight into space. He has flown for 25 hours on the Boeing Starliner spacecraft. That means it may take 25 hours. She has taken the spacecraft to the International Space Station. After that it will be docked with the ISS. Both crew members will spend a week there. After that, we will again board the Starliner to return on June 14.
Although this spacecraft is automated, the crew still used its hand controller. Fortune India’s Report According to , during the far field demo, they turned the Starliner’s nose toward Earth so that its communications antennae were pointed toward the tracking and data relay satellites. They then rotated the Starliner so that its solar arrays were facing the Sun, and they could charge its internal batteries. After that the Starliner was rotated again and its nose was turned away from the Earth so that it was in the direction of the stars.
With all these steps, the crew ensured that the Starliner could be controlled manually. During this time, the speed of Starliner was also increased and decreased manually.
Calypso has been developed by Boeing, for which the company has a contract with NASA. It faced many obstacles before it took off. But on Wednesday it finally took its first flight. This test flight has been successful so far and with this, Indian-origin astronaut Sunita Williams created history by becoming its first female pilot as part of the crew.