Boeingโs test pilot pulls himself from first crewed Starliner launch
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. โ Chris Ferguson, a former NASA astronaut, will no longer pilot the first crewed flight of the Boeingโs astronaut Starliner spacecraft, he announced Tuesday. Later that year, Ferguson joined Boeingโs executive team developing the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft under NASAโs Commercial Crew Program. Breaking: Butch Wilmore to fly on the Boeing Starliner crew flight test alongside NASA Astronauts Nicole Mann (@AstroDuke) and Mike Fincke (@AstroIronMike). This marks the second crew change for the Starliner test flight. Boeing still has to repeat its uncrewed test flight to and from the space station before it can fly astronauts.