Officials from NASA, Boeing and United Launch Alliance participate in a briefing at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida following launch of Boeing’s Orbital Flight Test, Dec. 20, 2019. From left to right are NASA astronauts Mike Fincke and Nicole Mann; Jim Bridenstine, NASA Administrator; Tory Bruno, President and CEO, United Launch Alliance; Jim Chilton, Boeing senior vice president, Space and Launch Division; Steve Stich, deputy manager, NASA Commercial Crew Program; and Kirk Shireman, manager, 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.