Steve Stich, deputy manager, NASA Commercial Crew Program, speaks during a briefing at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida following launch of Boeing’s Orbital Flight Test, Dec. 20, 2019. Beside him are Jim Chilton, Boeing senior vice president, Space and Launch Division, left, and Kirk Shireman, manager of NASA’s International Space Station Program. Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft launched atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 6:36 a.m. EST. The uncrewed Orbital Flight Test is the Starliner’s first flight for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program.