Today we are looking ahead to Starliner’s journey once it is ready for launch. Three weeks before launch, the journey from Kennedy Space Center (nasakennedy) will begin. It will take several hours to complete the seven-mile ride on the spacecraft transport vehicle to Space Launch Complex 41 on the northern edge of neighboring Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Upon arrival, the Starliner will be lifted by crane into the Vertical Integration Facility, a tall, narrow building, where it will be stacked atop an United Launch Alliance (ulalaunch) Atlas V rocket sitting on a Mobile Launch Platform. While there, they will undergo a series of tests and flight preparations, and the launch team will rehearse the countdown. The day before launch, the Mobile Launch Platform will travel 1,800 feet (550 meters) by rail onto the launch pad, where the rocket will be loaded with propellant and the spacecraft powered up for final pre-launch checkout. Once the launch sequence is set in motion, the coun...