Boeing's Starliner crew capsule, at long last, successfully blasted off from a Florida launch pad today with two brave humans onboard.
The Starliner manned spacecraft launched into Earth's orbit from Cape Canaveral at 1452 UTC, ending a lengthy run of unfortunate events that had resulted in repeated delays before liftoff.
Previous Starliner launch attempts were scrubbed, first due to a valve issue with the Atlas V's Centaur upper stage and then due to a power supply problem with one of the ground computers.
Boeing's rival SpaceX has continued to launch mission after mission with its Crew Dragon capsule, which first delivered astronauts to the ISS four years ago.
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