Williams and Wilmore arrived at the station aboard Starliner
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Expedition 71
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The Starliner spacecraft successfully coupled to the International Space Station at 1:34 p.m., United States time. The spacecraft was launched in a Atlas V rocket from United Launch Alliance at 10:52 AM of yesterday, June 5 from the Space-41 launch complex at the Cape Canaveral Space Force station in Florida.
The seven members of the Crew of expedition 71 along with the two members of the Starliner flight test crew, for a set portrait aboard the space station. On the front, from the left: Suni Williams, Oleg Kononenko and Butch Wilmore. In the second row from the left, Alexander Grebenkin, Tracy C. Dyson and Mike Barratt. Behind, Nikolai Chub, Jeanette Epps and Matthew Dominick. Image credit: NasaTV
Wilmore and Williams entered to the International Space Station at 3:45 p.m. EDT, United States time.
Starliner in a view from the space station, during the approach maneuvers while flying over the south of the Pacific Ocean. Image credit: NASA
The Starliner spacecraft, with NASA astronauts crew, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, made a careful approach to the International Space Station. After a series of proofs of the reaction control system, four propellers of five that had been turned off were recovered. The spacecraft made a planned stop 10 meters from the port of the station to evaluate its coupling preparation.
