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NASA time-lapse shows Starliner capsule stacked atop rocket

We’re just a week away from seeing Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft blast off from the launchpad at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida in a crucial test flight to the International Space Station (ISS). In a bid to create some buzz ahead of launch, and to spread the word far and wide about the May 19 mission, Boeing has shared a 113-second time-lapse video (below) showing the spacecraft on what appears to be the easiest journey it will ever have to make. The footage shows the Starliner being transported from the Commercial Crew & Cargo Processing Facility at the Kennedy Space Center to the Vertical Integration Facility operated by United Launch Alliance (ULA), whose Atlas V rocket will power the Starliner to orbit next week.

We sped up this time lapse so you can see #Starliner's rollout and stack in under 2 minutes.

Watch from Starliner's perspective as it heads from our factory to the @ulalaunch Vertical Integration Facility. Join us for Orbital Flight Test-2 launch on May 19. pic.twitter.com/g2cyviU4Oa — Boeing Space (@BoeingSpace) May 10, 2022

For folks keen to see more of the spacecraft’s trip to the Atlas V rocket, Boeing has also shared an unedited version of the time-lapse, which runs for just over nine minutes.

Next week’s uncrewed mission is hugely important for Boeing as it follows a failed flight in December 2019 as well as a second mission hiccup last August where technical issues meant the Starliner couldn’t even get off the launchpad. Boeing’s Orbital Flight Test-2 is designed to demonstrate that the aerospace giant has resolved all of the issues and is now able to fly safely to and from the space station. Starliner is expected to dock at the ISS on May 20, about 24 hours after launch.

It will be loaded with more than 500 pounds of NASA cargo and crew supplies. The spacecraft will stay docked at the ISS for between 5 and 10 days before returning to Earth for a parachute-assisted landing in New Mexico, bringing with it around 600 pounds of cargo. If the mission goes according to plan, it will give NASA another option alongside SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft for transporting astronauts and cargo to orbital outposts.

For now, that means the ISS, but in the coming years, following the ISS’s decommissioning, other near-Earth habitable satellites are expected to go into operation. After years of development and testing, SpaceX first deployed its Dragon spacecraft for uncrewed cargo missions to the space station in 2012. Drawing on its experiences with the Dragon, SpaceX built the Crew Dragon for astronaut flights, the first of which took place in 2020.

Here’s a review of that historic mission in pictures.

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