Boeing’s Starliner Is Finally Ready to Launch a NASA Crew Into Space

At long last, Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft is ready to launch humans to space. Tonight, the vehicle is due to lift off from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, with two NASA astronauts on board, the culmination of a troubled decade of development. Now, Boeing will hope, its own promised era of private human space travel can begin.

The Crew Flight Test mission is scheduled to launch on an Atlas V rocket at 10:34 pm eastern time and begin a 25-hour journey to the International Space Station, where its two passengers—Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams—will dock and spend about a week on board before returning home. (You can watch

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