Andrew Paul is Popular Science's staff writer covering tech news. Previously, he was a regular contributor to The A.V. Club and Input, and has had recent work featured by Rolling Stone, Fangoria, GQ, Slate, NBC, as well as McSweeney's Internet Tendency. He lives outside Indianapolis.
ArticleBody:After years of delays and multiple recent setbacks, Boeing’s Starliner launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida on June 5 aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at 10:52AM. The spacecraft is now en route to deliver two astronauts to the International Space Station. The launch makes Boeing the second private contractor to transport humans for
transport missions, however, Boeing generally expects four-member crews alongside payloads for each of Starliner’s 10 planned missions. Today's launch included announced its first Commercial Crew Program contracts to Boeing and SpaceX for the development of new spacecraft in 2014. But despite receiving barely half of Boeing’s $5.2 billion contract, SpaceX managed to launch the first-ever private transport of
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