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The Boeing CST-100
Starliner spacecraft is seen after it landed in White Sands, New Mexico,
Sunday, Dec. 22, 2019. The landing completes an abbreviated Orbital Flight Test
for the company that still meets several mission objectives for NASA’s
Commercial Crew program. The Starliner spacecraft launched on a United Launch
Alliance Atlas V rocket at 6:36 a.m. Friday, Dec. 20 from Space Launch Complex
41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Credits: NASA/Bill Ingalls
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Ken Kremer - - For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER/CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL – The first Boeing Starliner commercial crew capsule to launch and reach orbit landed safely this morning Sunday, Dec 22, at 7:58 a.m. ET at White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico after an abbreviated 2 day mission cut short by a timing failure that sent the ship into the wrong orbit and unable to dock at the International Space Station (ISS).
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