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Boeing to try again to launch first Starliner crewed mission

Starliner is set for a third attempt to fly astronauts to space for the first time, a much-delayed testing milestone to step up its competition with Elon Musk's SpaceX. The gumdrop-shaped CST-100 Starliner capsule, with two astronauts aboard, is due for liftoff at 10:52 am ET from a launch pad at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, strapped to an Atlas V rocket from Boeing-Lockheed Martin joint venture United Launch Alliance (ULA).