CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION, Fla. — United Launch Alliance announced Tuesday that the launch of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft is in its final stages of preparations
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The launch, which is scheduled for July 30 at 2:53 p.m., will be the second Orbital Flight Test to the International Space Station.
The ULA Launch Readiness Review (LRR) was completed today for the #AtlasV launch of @BoeingSpace’s #Starliner #OFT2 mission to the @Space_Station on Friday at 2:53 p.m. EDT (1853 UTC). Follow the mission in our countdown blog: https://t.co/VIynIdVS23 #LaunchAmerica pic.twitter.com/QmFmIqGokl
— ULA (@ulalaunch) July 27, 2021
The uncrewed test will fly a “full mission profile” to test the capabilities of the spacecraft from pre-launch to docking and undocking to landing and recovery.
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The launch will be the second of three test flights planned for Starliner to the ISS.
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This will be the 88th launch of the Atlas V rocket and the 100th ULA launch from Space Launch Complex-41.
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