diff --git a/src/_posts/2024-06-07-668707.md b/src/_posts/2024-06-07-668707.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c55d6f1 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/_posts/2024-06-07-668707.md @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +--- +{ + "date": "2024-06-07T14:13:33.000Z", + "title": "Starliner to the Stars", + "canonicalUrl": "https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/starliner-to-the-stars/", + "imageUrl": "https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/53771633339-75f69e21b8-o.jpg", + "imageAlt": "A white rocket takes off, leaving a trail of fire and vapor behind it. The sky is a cool blue-gray.", + "author": "Monika Luabeya" +} +--- + +A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft aboard [launches](https://plus.nasa.gov/video/nasas-boeing-crew-flight-test-launch/) from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, in this image from June 5, 2024. As part of [NASA’s Commercial Crew Program](https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/commercial/crew/index.html), the flight test will help validate the transportation system, launch pad, rocket, spacecraft, in-orbit operations capabilities, and return to Earth with NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams aboard. + +[Read more about the mission, including coverage of Starliner’s docking to the International Space Station.](https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/liftoff-nasa-astronauts-pilot-first-starliner-crewed-test-to-station/) + +_Image Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky_