Boeing expected to launch its first crewed Starliner capsule to the International Space Station

Boeing’s new Starliner capsule will launch NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to the International Space Station on May 6.

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00:00This is the first launch of astronauts for Boeing as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program,

00:24and I know that they are very excited, you can see it in their face, to fly to the International

00:29Space Station on this historic mission. We're about to launch on Boeing Starliner and broaden

00:35the capability to and from Space Station that our agency has, and that's vitally important,

00:41and we're excited to be here. This spacecraft is awesome, right, and I worked with our other

00:46friends for a little while too, and that spacecraft is also awesome. I think in our

00:50office people know that this one, there's a lot to know, there's a lot to do, there's a lot to

00:55be able to learn from the spacecraft. I honestly think it's a great stepping stone as we're getting

01:01ready to leave low Earth orbit and go back to the Moon. It has a lot of similar things that

01:06Orion has, so I think if I was a young astronaut and I was thinking about going to the Moon,

01:12I think I'd put my hand up and say, I want to fly Starliner.