CSA astronaut Joshua Kutryk to serve as mission specialist for NASA’s Boeing Starliner-1 mission

NASA announced today that the Canadian Space Agency astronaut Joshua Kutryk will serve as a mission specialist for the agency's Boeing Starliner-1 mission - the first operational mission of Boeing's CST-100 Starliner spaceship to the International Space Station (ISS).

Kutryk joins NASA astronauts Scott Tingle and Mike Fincke, who will serve as the mission commander and pilot, respectively. The final crew assignment for Starliner-1 will be announced following review and approval by the agency and its international partners.

Welcome aboard,@Astro_Kutryk!@csa_asc astronaut Joshua Kutryk has been selected as a mission specialist for NASA’s Boeing Starliner-1 mission. Kutryk joins @NASA_Astronauts Scott Tingle + Mike Fincke for its first crew rotation flight to @Space_Station: https://t.co/nO8yKViUsH pic.twitter.com/rKAwBCzdYo

— NASA Commercial Crew (@Commercial_Crew) November 22, 2023

The Starliner-1 mission is scheduled to launch atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida no earlier than the beginning of 2025. The mission will launch following the successful completion of the agency's Boeing Crew Flight Test (CFT), which aims to demonstrate Starliner's ability to achieve NASA certification and safely fly regular crewed missions to the space station.

The Booeing Starliner-1 quartet will join the expedition crew aboard the space station.