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second uncrewed test flightOrlando Sentinel
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NASA astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita “Suni” Williams take their historic ride on Boeing ’s CST-100 Starliner .
The pair are flying the Crew Flight Test mission, a followup to two uncrewed test flights of Starliner , the first of which came in 2019 .
The mission was a partial failure as it was not able to rendezvous with the ISS forcing a 2 1/2-year delay.
The flight comes just over four years since SpaceX made its first crewed flight to the ISS with its Crew Dragon spacecraft.
Starliner is only the sixth ever U.S.-based spacecraft to fly with NASA astronauts following Mercury , Gemini , Apollo , the space shuttleand SpaceX’s Crew Dragon.
This also marks the 100th launch of an Atlas V rocket.
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