Boeing's new Starliner capsule set for first crewed flight to space station

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida - Boeing Co's new Starliner astronaut capsule was poised for a Monday night launch of its long-delayed inaugural crewed test flight to the International Space Station, two years after its first voyage without humans to the orbital laboratory.The gumdrop-shaped CST-100 Starliner with two astronauts aboard was due for liftoff at 10:34 p.m.

Although Starliner is designed to fly autonomously, the crew can assume control of the spacecraft if necessary, and the test flight calls for Wilmore and Williams to practice maneuvering the vehicle manually. If all goes as planned, the capsule will arrive at the space station after a flight of about 26 hours and dock with the orbiting research outpost some 250 miles above Earth early on Wednesday.

The test flight comes at an especially critical moment for Boeing, whose commercial aircraft unit has endured a succession of safety crises in recent years.

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