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## Video: The Starliner Liftoff Is a Big Win for NASA

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_Published 2024-06-05. Astronaut Butch Wilmore can’t forget the time he landed on permafrost. It was 2015, and Wilmore was returning to Earth in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft after spending 167 days aboard the International Space Station (ISS)._


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## Transcript

Five, four, three, two, one, ignition and lift off of Starliner at Atlas five carrying two American heroes drawing a line to the stars for all of us. Commander ***** Wilmer there Calling down to Michon Control here in Houston, that the spacecraft has begun rolling into the right attitude for its asset, and to guide its navigation and control officer here in the room, seeing good debt on that. Stop passing through Max Q or the point of maximum dynamic pressure where the forces of air friction are highest, which in Sonny will shortly be passing through M one where the speed is sounded. All looking good so far.

Now, 2 minutes into Star Liners flight and coming up on the solid rocket booster Jeison at the two minute and 42nd mark. The second stage is two centaur engines have ignited to continue pushing Starliner into space fueled by liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen. And with that nominal mecocll that's main engine cutoff. We've got good energy, meaning a good velocity for continuing to orbit and a good plane, meaning Star Liners trajectory is aligned with the International Space Station for rendezvous. Tomorrow. And now what Starliner has separated from the centaur upper stage. We have a big thank you to our partners at ULA, providing Butch and Sonny a smooth ride to space.

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