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Boeing has launched its Starliner capsule to space carrying two NASA astronauts. They lifted off at 10:52 a.m. ET from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
"Let's get going," Wilmore said."Let's put some fire on this rocket and push it to the heavens ,where all these tough Americans have prepared it to be." The booster will be launching on a “flat and long” trajectory up the Eastern Seaboard, according to Tory Bruno, president and CEO of United Launch Alliance, which manufactures the Atlas V rocket. That means people all along the southern coast of the U.S. have a good chance of seeing the rocket on its way into orbit, he said.During this upcoming flight, the astronauts will perform a number of tests to show that the Starliner capsule can safely ferry crew members to and from low-Earth orbit.
Starship is the most powerful rocket ever developed. The upcoming flight aims to test technologies and techniques that will be key on future missions to the moon. In particular, SpaceX is hoping to demonstrate the reusability of the Starship system by showing that the upper-stage spacecraft and the rocket’s first-stage booster, known as Super Heavy, can make controlled and safe re-entries through Earth’s atmosphere.
Next, Wilmore and Williams will spend around 24 hours journeying to the International Space Station. Docking with the orbiting outpost is expected tomorrow at 12:15 p.m. ET.This mission is a test flight but the Starliner capsule is packed with nearly 800 pounds of cargo to take to the International Space Station.
The astronauts are bringing a small, sequined narwhal toy with them to space. The toy was chosen to be their “zero-gravity indicator,” which serves as a visual indicator that the Starliner capsule has reached the weightlessness of microgravity.Astronauts Butch Williams and Sunita Williams are getting strapped into their seats inside the Starliner capsule.
In an interview hours before Saturday’s launch attempt was called off, Sunita Williams’ mother, Bonnie Pandya, told NBC News that her daughter was in good spirits.Pandya said she expects her own emotions will run high when her daughter finally lifts off.
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