Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA. 1st December, 2015. The upper dome of the crew module for Boeing's CST-100 Starliner spacecraft is seen under construction at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Starliner is Boeing's commercial crew transportation vehicle designed to carry NASA astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS). In 2014, NASA awarded contracts to Boeing and SpaceX to each develop systems to transport astronauts to the space station. Credit: Paul Hennessy/Alamy Live News


December 1, 2015 - Kennedy Space Center, Florida, United States - The upper dome of the crew module for Boeing's CST-100 Starliner spacecraft is seen under construction at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Starliner is Boeing's commercial crew transportation vehicle designed to carry NASA astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS). It may also be used to ferry paying customers to low-earth orbit. In 2014, NASA awarded contracts to Boeing and SpaceX to each develop systems to transport astronauts to the space Starliner will be launched on an Atlas V rocket at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, with an expected first manned mission to the ISS in 2017. (Paul Hennessy/Alamy)


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