NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test Postlaunch News Conference - 720p

At approximately 12:30 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, June 5, NASA hosted a postlaunch news conference from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida following liftoff of NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test to the International Space Station. Participants in the briefing included Bill Nelson, NASA administrator; Ken Bowersox, associate administrator, NASA’s Space Operations Mission Directorate; Joel Montalbano, deputy associate administrator, NASA’s Space Operations Mission Directorate; Steve Stich, manager, NASA’s Commercial Crew Program; Mark Nappi, vice president and program manager, Boeing’s Commercial Crew Program; and Tory Bruno, president and CEO, ULA (United Launch Alliance). Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft launched atop ULA’s Atlas V rocket at 10:52 a.m. EDT Wednesday, June 5, from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, carrying NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to the orbiting laboratory as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. Starliner is scheduled to dock to the space station at about 12:15 p.m. EDT Thursday, June 6.