# @nasaartemis on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/C744NCpOId0
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- **Posted:** 2024-06-06T21:06:19.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA Artemis (@nasaartemis) — https://gondola.cc/nasaartemis

## Caption

Go Starliner ✨

Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft launched aboard a ULALaunch Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on June 5, 2024, in Florida. This was the first crewed launch of the Boeing CFT-100 spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS). The test flight serves as an end-to-end demonstration of Boeing’s crew transportation system and successfully docked with the ISS today at 1:34 p.m. EDT (1734 UTC), delivering NASAAstronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to the orbiting laboratory.

The commander of the mission and a veteran of two spaceflights, Wilmore has spent 178 days in space. In 2009, he served as a pilot aboard space shuttle Atlantis for STS-129. He served as a flight engineer for Expedition 41 until November 2014, when he assumed command of the station upon arrival of the Expedition 42 crew. He returned to Earth the following March.

Williams is the pilot for the mission. She has spent 322 days in space across two missions: Expedition 14/15 in 2006 through 2007, and Expedition 32/33 in 2012. The Massachusetts native has conducted seven spacewalks, totaling 50 hours and 40 minutes.

The goal of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program is to provide safe, reliable, and cost-effective human transportation to and from the ISS through a partnership with American private industry. As commercial companies focus on providing human transportation services to and from low-Earth orbit, NASA can apply resources toward building spacecraft and rockets for deep space missions.

Image description: In this black and white infrared image, a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft aboard launches from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Wednesday, June 5, 2024, in Florida. A palm tree in the foreground dominates the right side of the image.

Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky

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