1st Boeing Starliner astronauts are ready to launch to the ISS for NASA (exclusive)

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NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore have been training on Boeing's Starliner spacecraft for years. The team says they're ready for the first astronaut launch no earlier than May 1.

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[jan.wolitzky]

"Wilmore said the whole mission could be flown 'with no communication at all' with Mission Control if truly necessary": Of course it could. The whole mission could be flown with no astronauts at all, as it was on Orbital Flight Test 2, two years ago.