Boeing's Starliner spacecraft sends first astronaut crew to orbit

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying two astronauts aboard Boeing's Starliner-1 Crew Flight Test , is launched on a mission to the International Space Station, in Cape Canaveral, Florida, US, on June 5, 2024.

The rocket's engines thundered to life in flaming clouds of exhaust and coolant-water vapour as the spacecraft roared off its launch pad into sunny skies from Florida's Atlantic Coast. "This is another milestone in this extraordinary history of Nasa," the agency's administrator Bill Nelson told a press conference.

"We had just a perfect countdown and launch. ... It's been a long time coming. And we're really, really proud," Nappi said.Last-minute issues had nixed the Starliner's first two crewed launch attempts. A May 6 countdown was halted two hours before liftoff over three issues that required weeks of extra scrutiny. Another try last Saturday was halted less than four minutes before liftoff because of a launchpad computer glitch.

The longtime Nasa contractor has built modules for the decades-old ISS and rockets designed to loft astronauts toward the moon. But Boeing never before built its own operational spacecraft, a feat complicated by years of software issues, technical glitches and management shakeups on the Starliner programme.

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