It was a test of new starliner capsule on a Atlas V rocket. No crew on board. They had earlier failures with this rocket/ capsule
Nice. Corporate (private) space travel* was one milestone, but having corporate (private) COMPETITION is maybe at least as important. (Of course we’ve had this for years for many types of unmanned vehicles.)
*so far with plenty of government support and subsidy — rather like how the US gov’t handed out lands to railroad companies in the 1800s
The capsule went to the space station and now it’s back on earth. It landed on land rather than water.