In this article BA Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNTBoeing launched its first Starliner flight with astronauts on Wednesday, beginning a crucial final flight test of the long-delayed spacecraft.
ET from Cape Canaveral, Florida with two NASA astronauts aboard.
Starliner is carried by an United Launch Alliance's Atlas V rocket and bound for the International Space Station.
Boeing's crew flight test aims to certify the Starliner system as capable of carrying NASA astronauts to-and-from the ISS.
The capsule itself is built to carry as many as four NASA astronauts per flight and more than 200 pounds of research and cargo.
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