Houston, we have a podcast.

Welcome to the official podcast of the NASA Johnson Space Center, episode 331,

CFT, The Mission.

I'm Leah Cheshire and I'll be your host today.

On this podcast, we bring in the experts, scientists, engineers,

and astronauts all to let you know what's going on in the world of human

spaceflight and more. NASA's Boeing crew flight test or CFT will be the first

flight of humans on a brand new spacecraft.

NASA astronaut Sunita or Sunnie Williams and Barry or Butch Wilmore will be the first

human passengers on Starliner. They will launch aboard a United

Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral

Space Force Station in Florida. Their destination is the

International Space Station where they are slated to live and work for about a week.

They will evaluate Starliner and its systems before returning to Earth for landing on land in the Western United States.

Teams from Boeing and NASA will staff the mission control rooms here at Johnson Space Center throughout the flight.

NASA flight directors Mike Lammers, call sign Saturn flight, and Ed Vancice, call sign Carbon flight, have been working with the Boeing teams over the last several years

and will serve as flight directors for the Starliner spacecraft.

We sat down to talk with them about the mission, their roles, and what it's like to work in

Mission Control with a commercial spacecraft.

Let's get started. P minus five second to county.

Mark.

This is start.

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