Vice President and Program Manager of Boeing’s Commercial Crew Program Mark Nappi participates in a postlaunch news conference for NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test on Wednesday, June 5, 2024, at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. As part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are the first to launch aboard Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. Liftoff occurred at 10:52 a.m. EDT Wednesday, June 5, from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
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