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Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner Secured Atop an Atlas V Rocket

This landscape of “mountains” and “valleys” speckled with glittering stars is actually the edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region called NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula. Captured in infrared light by NASA’s new James Webb Space Telescope, this image reveals for the first time previously invisible areas of star birth.
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Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft is secured atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at the Vertical Integration Facility at Space Launch Complex-41 at Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on July 17, 2021. On July 30, Starliner is slated to launch on an Atlas V for Boeing’s second Orbital Flight Test for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program.

Image Credit: United Launch Alliance