Boeing is finally able to launch Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station. According to Space. com, the launch was carried out using an Atlas V launch vehicle.

The ship separated from the second stage of the rocket as planned, 15 minutes after launch.. Boeing officials said the capsule is in a stable orbit on its way to the ISS..

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OFT-2 is an unmanned mission designed to demonstrate that Starliner is ready to transport astronauts to the station.. The mission was supposed to launch last summer, but numerous problems were identified that specialists tried to solve..

Moreover, as the name implies, OFT-2 is the second attempt to solve the problem of 2019, when the capsule was unable to dock with the ISS..

The ship is expected to dock with the station in the late evening of May 20. It will deliver a payload of 180 kilograms to the ISS, most of which is food.. An astronaut dummy with sensors for monitoring flight performance is fixed in the capsule cabin..

Astronauts who are on board the ISS will meet a doll named Roizi and will broadcast this event online.

The CST-100 Starliner is being developed for flights of American astronauts to the ISS. The first test flight took place on December 20, 2019, when the ship was unable to dock with the station. The rocket successfully launched an unmanned spacecraft into a suborbital trajectory. However, after that, a problem arose on it related to a failure in the system for calculating the operating time of the engines, as a result of which Starliner entered an abnormal, lower, orbit.. The ship ran out of fuel, and docking with the ISS became impossible.

After that, NASA and Boeing made about 80 corrective changes to the ship's systems..