Boeing’s Starliner Orbital Test Flight 2 mission to the International Space Station

Boeing will launch its Starliner spacecraft on its second uncrewed test flight to the International Space Station on Tuesday (Aug. 3), at 1:20 p.m. EDT (1720 GMT).

The Orbital Flight Test 2 (OFT-2 mission) will spend about one week at the International Space Station before returning to Earth with a parachute-assisted landing in New Mexico. If all goes according to plan, Boeing will soon begin launching astronauts to the orbiting lab for NASA with the new spacecraft.

See photos of the Starliner OFT-2 mission here!