India, May 6 -- Two NASA astronauts are set to head for the International Space Station aboard Boeing's Starliner spacecraft Monday.
The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket, carrying the Starliner spacecraft, is scheduled to blast off from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 10:34 p.m. ET, according to NASA.
The crewed flight test will carry Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams to the space station for about a week to test the Starliner spacecraft and its subsystems before NASA certifies the transportation system for rotational missions to the orbiting laboratory for the agency's Commercial Crew Program.
If everything goes as expected, Starliner will dock to the forward-facing port of the station's ...