HBCU flags and 'Rosie' coins among Boeing Starliner OFT-2 cargo - collectSPACE.com

The OFT-2 launch atop a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida is targeted for July 30.

NASA's division of the cargo, weighing about 440 pounds (200 pounds), will include food and other items for the astronauts now on the space station.

Starliner will also deliver clothes, sleeping bags and other provisions for Crew Flight Test (CFT) astronauts Barry "Butch" Wilmore, Nicole Mann and Mike Fincke in anticipation of their follow-on mission to the space station.

flag on OFT-2 that will remain on the station until it is brought back Earth by the CFT crew.

The represented universities are: Clark Atlanta University, Morehouse College and Spelman College, part of the Atlanta University Center Consortium; Alabama A&M University; Florida A&M University; Howard University in Washington, D.C.; Morgan State University in Maryland; North Carolina A&T; Prairie View A&M University in Texas; Southern University and A&M College in Louisiana; South Carolina State University; Tennessee State University and Tuskegee University in Alabama.