Boeing launches first crewed space flight

Two NASA astronauts are on their way to the International Space Station on the Boeing Starliner Capsule.

Transcript

00:00Welcome to the official broadcast of NASA's Boeing crew flight test

00:03We have a beautiful aerial view of the rocket and spacecraft on launch pad 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station

00:10I'm NASA's Megan Cruz. This is NASA astronaut Mike Fink, and that's Boeing's D Russell

00:15Good morning. Now. We are here to watch NASA astronauts

00:18Butch Wilmore and Sonny Williams make history as the first people to fly aboard Boeing's Starliner

00:24Go Atlas. Go Centaur. Go Starliner. Godspeed, Butch and Sonny.

00:37Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one, ignition

00:48And liftoff of Starliner and Atlas V, carrying two American heroes, drawing a line to the stars for all of us

01:08Commander Butch Wilmore there

01:10Calling down to Mission Control here in Houston that the spacecraft has begun rolling into the right attitude for its ascent

01:16And the Guidance, Navigation and Control officer here in the room is seeing good data on that

01:35Starliner passing through max Q

01:37Or the point of maximum dynamic pressure where the forces of air friction are highest

01:43Butch and Sonny will shortly be passing through Mach 1 where the speed is sound