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ULA | United Launch Alliance

Atlas V to launch starliner CFT

ULA | United Launch Alliance
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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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formal

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English

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55

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medium-lived

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