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Atlas V OFT-1 Starliner

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Atlas V launched on Dec 20, 2019  carrying the First Orbital Test Flight of Starliner crew capsule. This was the first uncrewed test flight for Starliner. The Atlas V carrier rocket performed flawlessly but an anomaly with the spacecraft left it in a wrong orbit. The orbit was too low to reach the flight's destination of ISS, and the mission was subsequently cut short. The mission was a partial success.


Launch site: Cape Canaveral SLC-41


Vehicle: Atlas V 400 series, type N22, Serial number AV-080, Centaur Dual engine RL-10A, 2 Solid Rocket Boosters.


Landing: This was the first uncrewed orbital test flight of Starliner and it landed in New Mexico two days after launch. After the successful landing, NASA astronaut Sunita Williams named the capsule "Calypso" after the Research vessel from Jacques Costeau.


1:96 Scale paper model Kit#2 consists of the Atlas V rocket with the aeroskirt adapter for the Centaur stage.