Live launch coverage of NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test mission, beginning with a summarized video of astronaut suit-up inside the iconic Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida and continuing through launch from Space Launch Complex-41 at nearby Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft, named Calypso, launched at 10:52 a.m. EDT Wednesday, June 5, on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket, carrying NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to the International Space Station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. Starliner is scheduled to dock to the orbiting laboratory at about 12:15 p.m. EDT Thursday, June 6.
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