page_title: Christopher Ferguson
section_title: Boe-CFT
hierarchical_section_title: Christopher Ferguson / Post-NASA career / Boe-CFT
caption_attribution_description: English: From left to right, NASA astronaut Mike Fincke, Boeing astronaut Chris Ferguson, and NASA astronaut Nicole Mann pose for the official crew portrait for Boeing's Crew Flight Test to the International Space Station, part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program.
context_page_description: Christopher J. "Fergy" Ferguson is a Boeing commercial astronaut and a retired United States Navy Captain and NASA astronaut. He was the pilot of Space Shuttle Atlantis on his first mission to space, STS-115, which launched on September 9, 2006 and returned to Earth on September 21, 2006. He then commanded STS-126 aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour. In 2011, he was assigned as commander of STS-135, which was the final mission of the space shuttle program.
  On December 9, 2011, he retired from NASA and became director of Crew and Mission Operations for Boeing's Commercial Crew Program. In August 2018, Ferguson was assigned to the first test flight of the Boeing CST-100 Starliner.
context_section_description: In July 2018, Boeing announced his assignment to the first human CST-100 orbital test known as Boe-CFT. Ferguson will be the capsule Commander, with 2 other NASA astronauts. It is scheduled to launch in 2021.
caption: Ferguson (centre) as part of the Boe-CFT crew
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