Crew members are sent into space by Boeing's Starliner spacecraft

Boeing's long-awaited Starliner crew ferry ship to make its first piloted flight and historic journey to the International Space Station

At 10:52 p.m. EDT, the workhorse Atlas 5's Russian-built RD-180 first stage engine roared to life, and two strap-on solid fuel boosters ignited an instant later

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With a combined push of 1.6 million pounds, the 197-foot Atlas 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station's pad 41 soared majestically into the sk

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Commander Barry "Butch" Wilmore and co-pilot Sunita Williams, both former NASA astronauts and veteran Navy test pilots

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Wilmore and Williams intend to arrive at the space station, where they will be greeted by NASA's Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, Jeanette Epp Readmore

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