Houston, we have a podcast.

Welcome to the official podcast of the NASA Johnson Space Center, episode 205,

Go Starliner.

I'm Gary Jordan and I'll be your host today.

On this podcast we bring in the experts, scientists, engineers, astronauts, all to let you know what's going on in the world of human spaceflight.

NASA and Boeing are about to launch the second uncrude test flight called Orbital Flight Test 2 or OFT, of the Boeing Starliner, a spacecraft that will soon

be transporting astronauts to and from the International Space Station.

Having multiple spacecraft that have this capability is a critical objective laid out under

NASA's commercial crew program and this uncrewed test flight will demonstrate the

starliner as another capable vehicle of doing so alongside the SpaceX Dragon.

So to walk us through this test flight and its objective so alongside the SpaceX dragon.

So to walk us through this test flight and its objectives is Dr. Robert Dempsey, more commonly

known here as Dr. Bob.

He is one of the flight directors that will sit in the Boeing flight control room.

He's also the lead Boeing flight director,

and he'll be sitting there for the rendezvous

and docking portion of this mission.

As an experienced flight director,

an author and executive editor of the International Space Station operating an outpost in the new frontier,

which goes crazy in depth on Space Station operations and systems, he paints a verbal picture

of what we can expect to see on this mission and why these

objectives are critical to get us to the next step a flight test with a crew of

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