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For Boeing’s ‘First Starliner Test Launch’ Friday, Builds Excitement
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For Boeing’s ‘First Starliner Test Launch’ Friday, Builds Excitement

The introduction experimental flight of a Boeing Starliner space traveler taxi for NASA is prepared to fly, with incredible climate expected for its launch to the International Space Station Friday (Dec. 20). A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket will launch the uncrewed CST-100 Starliner spacecraft from Space Launch Compex 41 here at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station just before dawn on Friday. Liftoff is set for 6:36 a.m. EST (1136 GMT). "It's just incredibly proud and humbling to be here this week. It's really a culmination of years of really hard work by integrated NASA, Boeing and ULA teams," John Mulholland, VP and program director of Boeing's Commercial Crew program, said in a prelaunch news meeting at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida today (Dec. 17). "This is really settin...