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A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket will launch Boeing’s Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 Starliner spacecraft with two NASA astronauts, Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita "Suni" Williams on the Crew Flight Test (CFT). Following separation from Atlas V, Starliner engines will burn taking it the rest of the way to orbit and on to the International Space Station. CFT is ULA's first human launch. Liftoff will occur from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. Liftoff is set for 10:34 pm Eastern. Rocky's notes: This the Boeing capsule that suffered a near-loss on its first unmanned test launch and has gone through four years of technical issues and delays since. I sincerely hope the two astronauts make it unscathed. Watch on NASA TV or HERE
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Wilmore and Williams are two brave SOBs. NASA/Boeing/Atlas... what could possibly go wrong...
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https://twitter.com/ulalaunchI think they were saying about 1: 300 chance of failure. Brave guys.
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The Atlas is the most reliable part of that trifecta. Even if it uses Russian rocket motors and is totally expendable.
The capsule, however...If I were on that crew, I'd have told Boeing where to stick it long ago. Can you believe it took them four years to discover that some of the wiring they used was flammable?
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Jeebus....they aren't using straight oxygen too are they?
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That’s kinda like setting off on the Oregon trail in a conestoga…….a decade after the golden spike in Utah, lol.
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Wilmore and Williams live another day.
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