NASA's Boeing Starliner Astronauts at the ULA Atlas V Rocket Launch Pad
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A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket with Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft aboard was rolled out of the Vertical Integration Facility to the launch pad at Space Launch Complex 41 ahead of the Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) mission, Wednesday, May 18, 2022 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Boeing’s Orbital Flight Test-2 will be Starliner’s second uncrewed flight test and will dock to the International Space Station as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program. The mission, currently targeted for launch at 6:54 p.m. ET on May 19, will serve as an end-to-end test of the system's capabilities.
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For more updates about the flight test, visit https://blogs.nasa.gov/oft-2/
For more info on OFT-2 and Starliner, visit: boeing.com/starliner
Boeing's Starliner and SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft have been developed and tested to fly astronauts to and from the International Space Station from U.S. soil.
Learn more about NASA’s Commercial Crew Program at:
https://www.nasa.gov/commercialcrew
Credit: Boeing/John Grant
Image Date: May 18, 2022
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