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Boeing Launches First Crewed Starliner Spacecraft
- By The Financial District
- Jun 9, 2024
- 1 min read
A Boeing spacecraft carrying two NASA astronauts has launched on its historic crewed maiden voyage, Jackie Wattles, Ashley Strickland, and Maureen Chowdhury reported for CNN.
The astronauts, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, are attempting to become the first humans to travel to space in Boeing's Starliner craft. I Photo: The Boeing Company
The astronauts, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, are attempting to become the first humans to travel to space in Boeing's Starliner craft.
They are expected to spend one day in orbit before docking with the International Space Station (ISS). The mission comes after years of development and costly setbacks for Boeing’s Starliner, which aims to compete with SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft.
The Starliner spacecraft has separated from the Atlas V rocket and is firing its own engines.
Williams and Wilmore are now expected to spend more than 24 hours traveling to the ISS, with docking anticipated to occur at 12:15 p.m. ET on Thursday (Friday, June 7, 2024, in Manila).
