Watch Live! Boeing Starliner Astronaut Mission to the International Space Station

Boeing will launch its first-ever Starliner astronaut mission for NASA on a critical test flight to show its commercial space capsule is ready to ferry crews to and from the International Space Station.



The so-called Starliner Crew Flight Test will launch on a weeklong mission to the ISS from Space Launch Complex 41 of the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on June 5. Liftoff is set for 10:52 a.m. EDT (1452 GMT), with landing set for a week later in the southwestern U.S.