Starliner OFT-2 launch makes it to orbit, heading to ISS
Published by NASA Spaceflight on 05/19/2022
Nine months after valve issues caused its previous launch attempt to be scrubbed, Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft has launched on its Orbital Flight Test 2 mission atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket Thursday. OFT-2 departed Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral at 6:54:36 p.m. EDT (22:54 UTC), bound for the International Space Station (ISS).
Open the pod bay doors Al.!