CST-100 Crew Access Arm installed this morning

For the first time since the Space Shuttle era, there is a Crew access arm and Whiteroom at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Today, August 15th, the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft's Crew Access Arm was installed at ULA's launch pad for when their Atlas V launches crew to the ISS for the first time around 2017. Construction of the crew access arm began about 7 months ago, "This is another step in a long process we began back in February 2015 to construct our crew access tower.". It will take a few months to hook up and install everything on the tower and to test it. The lead of Boeing's Commercial Crew Launch Site, Lisa Locks said, "This is 

a momentous day. It's been a long time coming.". They're on track to launch Astronauts to the ISS in about 18 months. The forward and aft domes of the spacecraft that will launch on its first flight have been manufactured.