Veteran astronauts Eric Boe and Sunita Williams are using touch-screen simulators to practice docking Boeing's CST-100 Starliner spacecraft with the space station during a training session near Lambert-St. Louis International Airport.
The simulator, called the Crew Part-Task Trainer, helps prepare astronauts and flight controllers for missions, flight conditions and situations including the rendezvous and docking.
Willaims explains how the simulator is helping prepare astronauts to dock the new type of spacecraft with the international space station.
"This is a simulator. It's one of a couple of different types of simulators that we'll ha
