The launch was the third attempt for the Starliner mission after delays to previous attempts.
Satellite imagery captured the Boeing Space Starliner blasting off from Cape Canaveral in Florida on Wednesday morning.
The launch was the third attempt for the Starliner mission, which had been sidelined by delays and engineering issues for years. However, the launch proved successful, sending veteran astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams rocketing off to the International Space Station (ISS) at 10:52 a.m. ET.
The astronauts are riding on a Boeing capsule, which will reach orbit atop an Atlas V rocket.
«This Crew Flight Test aims to certify the spacecraft for routine space travel to and from the @Space_Station,» NASA posted on X, formerly Twitter.
The launch was captured by NASA’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES).
«#NASA crewed mission liftoff this morning as viewed in hires #GOES #NESDIS visible (CH 2) imagery,» the National Weather Service (NWS) in State College, Pennsylvania, posted on X with a recording of the satellite imagery, which appears to show a line of smoke as the spaceship blasted off.
