Synopsis The Crew Flight Test (CFT) mission will send NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to the station on an eight-day mission, launching from Cape Canaveral and landing at White Sands, New Mexico, SpaceNews. com reported. Aerospace company Boeing 's Starliner is on track to fly its first crew in April this year, company officials and NASA have confirmed. The Crew Flight Test (CFT) mission will send NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to the station on an eight-day mission, launching from Cape Canaveral and landing at White Sands, New Mexico, SpaceNews. com reported. The company last year successfully conducted an uncrewed flight to the International Space Station (ISS). In May 2022, the Orbital Flight Test 2 (OFT-2), docked with the ISS for a little less than a week. Following the success of the April flight, NASA will likely certify it for use on ISS crew rotation missions. "We established an April target for the CFT mission based on the work that was ahead of us, the hardware issues that we had encountered, and then the engineering product that needed to be completed," Mark Nappi , Boeing's Vice President and programme manager for the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft, was quote as saying in the update. "We've done our designs, we've tested this hardware, the analysis is all done. " The time has come to "wrap it all up in a bow and make sure that we (Boeing) did what we said we were going to do," Nappi added. However, the exact date when the launch will take place is dependent on a number of factors, including closing the book on OFT-2's OMAC thruster malfunction and ISS traffic, Space. com reported. According to Nappi, Boeing is "making the progress that we need to in order to be ready for that crew rotation in the winter of '24. " Once in rotation, Boeing expects to fly one Starliner flight a year. Don’t miss out on ET Prime stories! Get your daily dose of business updates on WhatsApp. click here! Sunday, 26 Feb, 2023 Experience Your Economic Times Newspaper, The Digital Way! Read Complete Print Edition » Front Page Pure Politics Bottom line Deep Dive More G20 Fin Meet Ends Without Communique The G20 meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors ended Saturday without a communique as Russia and China opposed any reference to the war in Ukraine — a chair summary was issued instead — but managed to make headway in resolving the debt of vulnerable countries as well as reform of multilateral development banks. US Keen to Deepen Ties with India in Tech Sector: Yellen Terming India as its trusted trading partner, US treasury secretary Janet Yellen on Saturday backed “friend-shoring” to bolster the resilience of supply chains, which was showing progress with Apple and Google expanding their production in the country. India Asks IMF, FSB to Prepare Technical Paper on Crypto Assets India, which is currently holding the G20 Presidency, has tasked the International Monetary Fund and the Financial Stability Board (FSB) with jointly preparing a technical paper on crypto assets. Read More News on boeing nasa starliner omac international space station suni williams mark nappi butch wilmore (Catch all the Business News , Breaking News Events and Latest News Updates on The Economic Times . ) Download The Economic Times News App to get Daily Market Updates & Live Business News. . . . more less ETPrime stories of the day Investing Adani fiasco, interest rates, geopolitical tensions: why 2023 will be a tough year for investors 6 mins read Investing Adani Group stocks: Will averaging out work for retail investors? 10 mins read Investing Macquarie’s double upgrade has sparked some interest in Paytm stock. Should you buy? 7 mins read Subscribe to ETPrime.