Boeing’s Manned Starliner Craft Successfully Launches

CBNC reports:

Boeing launched its first Starliner flight with astronauts on Wednesday, beginning a crucial final flight test of the long-delayed spacecraft.

The launch took off at 10:52 a.m. ET from Cape Canaveral, Florida with two NASA astronauts aboard. Starliner is carried by an United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket and bound for the International Space Station.

Wednesday’s liftoff comes after a series of attempts to launch the mission, which is known as the Boeing crew flight test. On Saturday, a launch attempt was called off in the final minutes of the countdown due to a problem with one of the computer’s that provides ground support to the rocket.

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LAUNCH! ULA’s Atlas V launches Boeing’s Starliner CFT with Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita “Suni” Williams to the ISS.

OVERVIEW: https://t.co/rCz6806UtE

LIVE: https://t.co/Rv2dFJ1ljm pic.twitter.com/zyGsP1mzAY

— Chris Bergin – NSF (@NASASpaceflight) June 5, 2024

Liftoff! Go #AtlasV! Go Centaur! Go #Starliner!

Godspeed, Butch Wilmore and @Astro_Suni! pic.twitter.com/kTA8fjcLP7

— Boeing Space (@BoeingSpace) June 5, 2024