The crew flies to space on May 6, if the schedule holds. The first Starliner crew is ready to fly on May 6, the team told reporters upon arriving at the launch site. This will mark the spacecraft's debut mission with humans on board.

NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore have entered a quarantine at the Kennedy Space Center ahead of a test launch to the International Space Station early next month. The crew will be the first human passengers in Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft.

Williams’ space odyssey began with Expedition 14/15 from Dec 9, 2006, to June 22, 2007. She launched with the crew of STS-116 and served as Flight Engineer. She set a record for women with four spacewalks totaling 29 hours and 17 minutes. She returned to Earth with the STS-117 crew in June 2007.

Boeing's Starliner capsule has been cleared for its first-ever crewed launch, a test flight scheduled to send two astronauts toward the International Space Station on May 6.

NASA and Boeing have officially confirmed that the latter's crewed Starliner mission is officially launching on May 6 after completing its critical flight test review.

The two NASA astronauts assigned to Boeing’s first human spaceflight have arrived in Florida for their May launch

Two NASA astronauts are set to become the first to launch aboard Boeing's Starliner space capsule. They will fly to the space station in a high-stakes test flight.

Boeing will launch its first-ever Starliner astronaut mission for NASA as early as May 6, 2024 on a critical test flight to show its commercial space capsule is ready to ferry crews to and from the International Space Station.