The Boeing Starliner’s third crewed launch attempt was a success. The spacecraft successfully lifted off aboard the ULA Atlas V rocket on June 5th.
The third attempt at a crewed launch of the Boeing Starliner was a success. On Wednesday at 10:52AM ET, the spacecraft lifted off atop the United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and now has reached a “safe, stable orbit.
This launch has been in the works since the start of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program in 2014, picking Boeing and SpaceX as its two private partners to shuttle astronauts to the ISS and back. Boeing received $4.2 billion to develop Starliner, but since then, it’s had years of problems, while SpaceX’s Crew Dragon soared ahead. Starliner’s first uncrewed launch in 2019 ended in failure, but it finally docked with the ISS in 2022.
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