# NASA had a good launch today

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [May 19, 2022, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasa-had-a-good-launch-today/964721 "2022-05-19T23:13:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2022, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasa-had-a-good-launch-today/964721/1 "2022-05-19T23:13:21Z")

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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

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**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2022, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasa-had-a-good-launch-today/964721/2 "2022-05-21T12:41:15Z")

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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

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**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2022, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nasa-had-a-good-launch-today/964721/3 "2022-05-26T00:46:59Z")

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The capsule went to the space station and now it’s back on earth. It landed on land rather than water.

> **[Boeing's Starliner capsule makes safe return from test mission | CNN Business](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/boeings-starliner-capsule-on-its-way-home-from-test-mission/ar-AAXIMO8)**
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> Boeing's Starliner spacecraft made a safe return home from its five-day stay at the International Space Station on Wednesday, concluding a long-awaited test mission that could pave the way for the Starliner to launch astronauts for the first time...