The first crewed test flight for Boeing's Starliner is scheduled to launch just after 10:30 p.m. Monday ET.
Two NASA astronauts will hitch a ride to the International Space Station aboard a Boeing capsule Monday night, a critical test for the embattled aerospace giant as it launches humans into space for the first time.Astronauts Barry 'Butch' Wilmore and Sunita Williams are set to blast off from Cape Canaveral in a Boeing Starliner spacecraft at 10:34 p.m. ET. A livestream of the launch can be viewed below.
NASA's goal is not to replace SpaceX as its preferred mode of transit, but to add an option for its Commercial Crew Program, the initiative that replaced the Shuttle when it retired in 2011 in efforts to cut costs and outsource the job of ferrying astronauts to the private sector.A decade ago, with the Shuttle program retired and no replacement on the horizon, NASA awarded Boeing $4.2 billion and SpaceX $2.6 billion to develop commercial crew systems, a measure allowing the U.S.
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