Boeing launches first crewed space flight

Two NASA astronauts are on their way to the International Space Station on the Boeing Starliner Capsule.

Transcript

00:00Welcome to the official broadcast of NASA's Boeing crew flight test

00:03We have a beautiful aerial view of the rocket and spacecraft on launch pad 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station

00:10I'm NASA's Megan Cruz. This is NASA astronaut Mike Fink, and that's Boeing's D Russell

00:15Good morning. Now. We are here to watch NASA astronauts

00:18Butch Wilmore and Sonny Williams make history as the first people to fly aboard Boeing's Starliner

00:23Go Atlas. Go Centaur. Go Starliner. Godspeed, Butch and Sonny.

00:30Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one. Ignition.

00:42And liftoff of Starliner and Atlas V, carrying two American heroes, drawing a line to the stars for all of us.

00:53NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology