US Astronauts Begin Training For Starliner ISS Flight - Russian Space Center

US Astronauts Begin Training for Starliner ISS Flight - Russian Space Center

Three US astronauts, who will be manning Boeing's Starliner spacecraft's test flight to the International Space Station [ISS] in November, have began training at the Russian Cosmonaut Training Center (CTC), the center said in a statement no Monday

MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 01st April, 2019) Three US astronauts, who will be manning Boeing's Starliner spacecraft's test flight to the International Space Station [ISS] in November, have began training at the Russian Cosmonaut Training Center (CTC), the center said in a statement no Monday.

"Today NASA astronauts, Nicole Aunapu Mann, Edward Michael Fincke and Barry Wilmore were introduced to the center's staff. The astronauts are currently preparing for their first test space flight on the Boeing Starliner spacecraft to the ISS," the center said.

The astronauts will be taught to operate the control system in the Russian Orbital Segment of the ISS and learn Russian for the duration of five weeks.

Boeing's private Starliner spacecraft was developed under a $4.2 billion contract that the aerospace giant signed with NASA in 2014. The first uncrewed test mission to the ISS has reportedly been moved from April to August and the spacecraft's first crewed ISS flight has been delayed until November.