Spacecraft carrying Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams blasts off from Cape Canaveral atop an Atlas V rocket, embarking on highly anticipated voyage to space station after two scrapped attempts and years of delay.
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying two astronauts aboard Boeing's Starliner-1 Crew Flight Test on Boeing's Starliner spacecraft, launches from Cape Canaveral / Photo: Reuters
The trip by Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams was expected to take 25 hours. They will spend just over a week at the orbiting lab before climbing back into Starliner for a remote desert touchdown in the western US on June 14.Half an hour later, he and Williams were safely in orbit and giving chase to the space station. Back at Cape Canaveral, the relieved launch controllers stood and applauded.
"It's just a tough endeavor to get to flight and huge kudos to the entire team for getting there,” said Steve Stich, NASA's commercial crew program manager. The liftoff from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station was the 100th of an Atlas V for rocket maker United Launch Alliance. It was the first ride for astronauts on an Atlas rocket since John Glenn’s Mercury era more than 60 years ago; the rocket usually launches satellites and other spacecraft.Despite the Atlas V's perfect record, the human presence cranked up the tension for the scores of NASA and Boeing employees gathered at Cape Canaveral and Mission Control in Houston.
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