Watch NASA launch its first astronauts aboard the Boeing Starliner

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NASA will effort to nonstop a brace of astronauts to abstraction aboard Boeing’s Starliner craft for nan first clip today. Starliner has faced respective delays complete nan years, pinch its first uncrewed trial formation successful 2019 ending successful failure earlier it successfully docked astatine nan International Space Station successful 2022. While Starliner’s first crewed formation was expected to return spot past May, NASA delayed nan launch owed to method issues.

The motorboat will return spot astatine 10:34PM ET from nan Cape Canaveral Space Force Station successful Florida, and you tin watch it unrecorded from NASA’s YouTube channel.

The United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket will propel nan Starliner craft to space, wherever it will enactment astatine nan ISS for 1 week. While connected board, formation commandant Butch Wilmore and aviator Suni Williams will trial nan Starliner’s capabilities, including launching, docking, and its eventual return to Earth.

Boeing built nan Starliner arsenic portion of its $4.2 cardinal statement pinch NASA, which encourages nan improvement of caller spacecraft from backstage companies done nan agency’s Commercial Crew Program.

If each goes good during this flight, NASA will certify Starliner, allowing it to ferry NASA astronauts betwixt Earth and nan ISS. This could make nan Starliner a caller rival for SpaceX, which has been carrying NASA astronauts to abstraction since 2020.

In summation to airing nan formation connected its YouTube channel, you tin besides watch it from NASA’s website, its apps, aliases connected its streaming service, NASA Plus.