Boeing to launch its 1st Starliner astronaut mission today. Here's how to watch it live online.
Boeing's Starliner capsule is scheduled to launch astronauts for the first time ever on June 1 and you'll be able to watch it live online.
Space fans will be glued to their screens for the historic liftoff, which will send NASA's Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams toward the International Space Station (ISS) atop a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket. Launch is currently scheduled for 10:52 a.m EDT (1452 GMT) on Wednesday, June 5. You can watch it here at Space.com, courtesy of NASA and follow the mission with our Boeing Starliner live updates.
Starliner has had a long and bumpy road to the launch pad. Wednesday's launch attempt comes nearly four weeks later than the original targeted May 6 liftoff. That attempt was scrubbed some two hours before launch after teams noticed an anomaly in an oxygen relief valve in the Atlas V's Centaur upper stage. The Starliner-topped Atlas V was then rolled off the launch pad to a processing building, where the valve was replaced. While that work was being performed, a new issue cropped up: a slight helium leak in a thruster in Starliner's service module.
The most recent launch attempt on June 1 was aborted with just minutes left in the countdown due to a computer issue in ground launch sequence equipment.
