crew will check and stabilize the hydrazine fuels and then ground the vehicle for static electricity after that an HVAC truck will roll up and start to cool the spacecraft including the crew and the fuels next up a mobile landing platform will pull up with stairs and begin to evacuate the crew Boeing has to pull crew out within one hour and cargo out within two the person who actually extracts the crew is a member of Boeing's Fire and Rescue team which i think is pretty cool the crew is taken out and then set over to a truck for medical check-ups and then whisked away on a NASA helicopter eventually the capsule itself will be loaded up with a small crane truck and taken back to begin refurbishment the cockpit of Starliner takes a fairly conservative and familiar approach although it's a lot less cluttery than the space shuttles cockpit it still features familiar and traditional controls buttons and non touchscreens the Starliner will dock to the ISS and not berth docking is where the vehicle actually does all the final maneuvering until it connects itself up with the docking port dragon NUMBER_TOKEN and Cygnus cargo vehicles both currently berth to the station meaning they park and then are grappled to the station via the Canada arm or Canada arm astronauts get in and out of the side hatch run on earth but when docked they'll crawl through the top art that connects to the International Space Station via the International docking adapter on the ISS initially getting into and out of the Starliner is admittedly a bit cumbersome astronauts need to shimmy into their seats lying on their backs the spacecraft is two main sections the crew module and a service module the crew module is well exactly what you'd think it's where the crew goes it's also the part that survives reentry the service module houses propellant tanks for orbital maneuvering the orbital maneuvering thrusters the launch abort motors which are on the bottom in a pusher configuration solar panels on the bottom and radiators on the sides as well as a host of other things the abort motors are for Aerojet Rocketdyne RS NUMBER_TOKEN bantams modified to run on hypergolic fuels to function as a launch abort motor the first uncrewed test flight oft one will fly with the qualification test motors but they'll be inactive since there will be no crew on board in the event of an issue with the booster or a rapid unscheduled disassembly these abort motors would be used up until a few minutes into flight after which time the vehicle would just use the maneuvering thrusters the Starliner offers a full envelope abort window meaning the astronauts can abort at any time and remain safe Boeing designed the Starliner to be able to ride on a variety of rockets including the Alice NUMBER_TOKEN the Delta NUMBER_TOKEN and the Falcon NUMBER_TOKEN they wound up selecting United Launch alliances Atlas NUMBER_TOKEN for now and eventually you LA's upcoming vulcan rocket will likely fly Starliner the exact Atlas NUMBER_TOKEN they selected isn't nNUMBER_TOKEN now here's a quick reminder of those numbers the first part of the name represents the fairing size the options being NUMBER_TOKEN meters NUMBER_TOKEN meters or nNUMBER_TOKEN none the middle number is the amount of strap-on rocket boosters and can range from NUMBER_TOKEN to NUMBER_TOKEN the last number is the number of rlNUMBER_TOKEN engines on the Centaur
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