ULA's Atlas V Launches Boeing Starliner Carrying NASA Astronauts To Space Station

Veteran NASA astronauts Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Suni Williams, both former U.S. Navy test pilots with 11,000 flight hours between them, are riding aboard the Boeing Starliner capsule, which launched today at 1452 UTC, atop a United Launch Alliance's (ULA) workhorse Atlas V rocket. This crewed flight, CFT-1, is a first for Starliner, and also the first time astronauts have launched atop an Atlas V in its 22-year flight history.