NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test astronaut Butch Wilmore says goodbye to friends and family upon exiting the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, June 5, 2024. Wilmore, accompanied by NASA astronaut Suni Williams, is preparing to load up into Boeing’s Astrovan for the trip to the launch pad of Space Launch Complex-41 at nearby Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, where the duo will launch to the International Space Station aboard Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at 10:52 a.m. EDT.
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