Boeing has shared a video featuring an idyllic view from the window of its CST100 Starliner capsule as it headed to space on its recent uncrewed test flight.
The footage shows Earth coming into view and includes an orbital sunset as the spacecraft makes its way to the International Space Station for a short stay. Look carefully around the 43-second mark and you’ll also glimpse an object — whether a piece of space rock or a satellite — zipping by.
The Starliner took Rosie the Rocketeer along for the ride, a sensor-equipped mannequin that allowed scientists to monitor and assess the conditions inside the capsule during its key five-day mission. After dropping off 500 pounds of supplies for the ISS astronauts, the capsule returned home in a parachute-assisted landing in the New Mexico desert on Wednesday, May 25.
The spacecraft certainly performed better than it did in its first flight in 2019 when software issues prevented it from reaching the ISS.
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