Boeing’s Orbital Flight Test: Atlas V N22 launch vehicle explained

The Atlas V launch vehicle for Boeing’s Orbital Flight Test (OFT) is presented by John Elbon, Chief Operating Officer, United Launch Alliance, during a press conference held on 17 December 2019 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Atlas V N22 launch vehicle is schedueled to launch Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner crew capsule on its maiden mission to the International Space Station on 20 December 2019, at 11:36 UTC.

Credits: United Launch Alliance/NASA/Frank Michaux/Joel Kowsky
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[Alexagrigorieff]

At a first glans, this looks like a good vehicle.

[Pintuuuxo]

Good news. Let's hope for a very good show. What a pity that no one payed the ticket to go inside. :-)

[realspacemodels]

John Glenn was the first AMERICAN to orbit, Yuri Gagarin was the first to orbit.

[AfSeV]

still Russian RD -180 on this rocket, what a shame on the American cosmonautics. And this country still imposes sanctions against Russian