It's not just another ride for a pair of veteran NASA astronauts who arrived to the Space Coast ahead of their flight onboard Boeing's CST-100 Starliner.

Veteran NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams recently arrived at the Kennedy Space Center to begin final preparations. Watch: ‘Where the rubber meets the road’: Starliner test flight crew arrives at Kennedy Space Center The launch team successfully completed its final dress rehearsal on Saturday.

Boeing Co.’s Starliner spacecraft is set to make its first crewed flight to the International Space Station on Monday, carrying two NASA astronauts to the orbiting space lab.

After years of delays and stumbles, Boeing is finally poised to launch astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA, in the first flight of the company's Starliner capsule with a crew on board.

Boeing’s Starliner crew capsule, which has been plagued by years of setbacks and cost overruns amounting to roughly $1.5 billion, is about to take its first flight with humans on board. Boeing was chosen 10 years ago alongside SpaceX to develop a spacecraft that could ferry astronauts from US soil to the International Space Station (ISS),

If all goes well late on May 6, 2024, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will blast off into space on Boeing's Starliner spacecraft. Launching from the Kennedy Space Center, this last crucial test for Starliner will test out the new spacecraft and take the pair to the International Space Station for about a week.

Boeing's Starliner is finally ready to fly astronauts, after several years of delay. The capsule's designers put the extra time to good use, NASA and Boeing representatives say.