Boeing Starliner Crew Flight Test Cleared for June 1 Launch Written 30 May 2024

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ULA Atlas V rocket with Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft onboard as it is rolled out of the Vertical Integration Facility. | Credit: Joel Kowsky; NASA

SPACE reports, “The first-ever astronaut launch of Boeing's Starliner capsule, known as Crew Flight Test, is ‘go’ for its planned June 1 launch, NASA announced today (May 29). CFT will send NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to the International Space Station (ISS) for a roughly week-long stay. The mission is set to launch atop a ULA Atlas V rocket on Saturday at 12:25 p.m. EDT (1625 GMT) from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, on Florida's Space Coast.”
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