NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test Launch

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, right, NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy, second from right, and Vanessa Wyche, Director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center watch the launch of United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft aboard launches from Space Launch Complex 41 from ULA’s Advanced Spaceflight Operations Center at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Wednesday, June 5, 2024, in Florida. NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test is the first launch with astronauts of the Boeing CFT-100 spacecraft and United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. The flight test, which launched at 10:52 a.m. EDT, serves as an end-to-end demonstration of Boeing’s crew transportation system and will carry NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to and from the orbiting laboratory.