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•Atlas V to launch starliner CFT
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A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket will launch Boeing ’s Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 Starliner spacecraft with two NASA astronauts on the Crew Flight Test (CFT) Following separation from Atlas V , Starliner engines will burn taking it the rest of the way to orbit and on to the International Space Station .
CFT is ULA 's first human launch.
Space Launch Complex-41 (SLC-41) employs a clean pad’ concept of operations to ready launch vehicles and payloads for ascent into space.
The rocket elements are assembled atop a Mobile Launch Platform inside the Vertical Integration Facility (VIF) located adjacent to the launch pad.
The platform and fully stacked Atlas V then travel by rail approximately 1,800 feet northward from the VIF to the pad for the final countdown, fueling and liftoff.
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