Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft finally lifted off Wednesday (Jun 5) on its maiden human flight to space after having suffered multiple delays, two scrubs and several glitches.
Indian-origin astronaut Sunita Williams flew alongside NASA astronaut Butch Willmore on her third mission, who is the commander of the Crew Flight Test mission of the spacecraft.
At dawn from the gateway to Mars, the launch of Starship’s second flight test pic.twitter.com/ffKnsVKwG4
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The previous launch of the spacecraft was scheduled for June 1 but it was scrubbed after a last-minute glitch. An automatic hold triggered by the ground launch sequencer, or the computer that launches the rocket, stopped the countdown clock at 3 minutes and 50 seconds ahead of launch