Two veteran astronauts will put the Starliner through its paces in the ship's first piloted flight to orbit.
Years behind schedule and more than a billion dollars over budget, Boeing's Starliner capsule is finally poised for its first piloted launch Monday, a critical test flight carrying two veteran astronauts to the International Space Station and in so doing, demonstrate an alternative to SpaceX's already operational Crew Dragon.
Approaching the station from behind and below, the astronauts will catch up with the lab complex early Wednesday, docking at the station's forward port at 12:46 a.m. on May 8. They'll be welcomed aboard by Expedition 71 commander Oleg Kononenko and his Soyuz MS-25 crewmates, Nikolai Chub and NASA's Tracy Dyson, along with NASA Crew 8 commander Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, Jeanette Epps and cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin.
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