that is flying with NASA astronauts Barry"Butch" Wilmore and Sunita"Suni" Williams on the crew flight test of"Calypso," Boeing's CST-100commercial spacecraft. A toy version of the deepest-diving marine mammal, it is soon to be the highest-flying example of its kind while serving as the crew's"zero-g indicator."
Williams said that the narwhal reflects her and Wilmore's excitement to be flying on this long-awaited mission. Their test flight will pave the way for operational Starliner flights to begin rotating crews to and from the space station for NASA. Starliner Crew Flight Test pilot Suni Williams holds"Calypso" the narwhal. She had her niece and nephew pick out the doll to be hers and commander Butch Wilmore's zero-g indicator.The underwater theme stems from Williams' personal love for the ocean. A Navy test pilot, she tapped into the same interest five years ago when she was given the honor of naming her then-future spacecraft.