Atlas V Starliner CFT: Passing the Torch

As we return human spaceflight to Atlas, we pass the torch of knowledge to future generations, building on all we have learned.
Go Atlas! Go Centaur! Go Starliner!

[@barometricfunk]

I haven’t seen anyone say it yet, but this is the first time NASA is launching humans NOT from KSC since Apollo 7. That’s so cool!!

[@lextacy2008]

@@HowToSpacic No its not. Its on the CCAFS side. Even the badging system is different

[@itsmeoli3705]

@@lextacy2008The former LC-34 is on the Air/Space Force Base?

[@williamduffy1227]

Can't wait to hear those magic words "We are Go for Launch!" 👍✌🖖😎

[@debott4538]

Loving the golden Atlas II torch. Go Atlas! 🚀

[@goldgamercommenting2990]

Atlas is back for crew missions since the 1960s

[@ESowder24]

Hope all goes well and crew is safe !

[@shabo857]

Woot woot. First! lol. Thanks for sharing this video. Love watching these. So educational for the average Joe

[@AlineAquino1]

❤❤❤❤

[@TaranAadarsh]

I wonder if they'll make a Starliner 2 for Vulcan or something maybe. Like how SpaceX has Dragon 2 now...

[@charliejordansyoutubechann6857]

thanks

[@OptimusNiaa]

Go ULA! Go Boeing! Go Atlas! Go Starliner! Go CFT!

[@Truevamp1984]

This is sooo amazing I can't wait for the future ❤❤❤

[@AlineAquino1]

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@tossedsaladandscrambledegg8576]

Better check the door bolts!

[@tracksidecraig]

Cool

[@JesseBusman1996]

Let's go!

[@ivanrybkin7358]

Nope, let’s not LOL

[@magnustan841]

I’m just happy Boeing might soon be in the press for positive reasons

[@codymoe4986]

I'm just happy that you didn't take the opportunity to troll...so many "armchair experts" offering up their opinions on that company, like they were actually qualified to do so...

[@davidrussell7530]

Seems to waste a lot of bits of the rocket

[@lextacy2008]

Too much is riding on this mission. This is the flight that either saves spaceflight, or destroys it.

[@psychonaut421]

That's pretty hyperbolic. A Starliner failure would not end American human space flight. We have redundancy built in to see that that doesn't happen.

[@ClashStats]

Promotional video, with rehearsed comments from various individuals. Add a few pretty start pictures etc. and the nerds are thrilled. Simply meaningless!🙄

[@ivanrybkin7358]

Torch of knowledge of how to launch a poorly designed and built Boeing spacecarft on an outdated rocket with russian soviet-era engines. Glad that you're preserving and passing that valuable knowledge to future generations!

[@MikeHarpe]

That's hardly necessary and I can tell just by the way you say you don't have any idea what you're talking about. Either that or you're a Chinese propagandist.

[@Gamingmaster-jv9zj]

Soviet engines were better than contemporary American engines, with the exeption of hydrolox

[@codymoe4986]

Please explain to the rest of us, how Boeing could design and build a better human rated spacecraft...in detail, please...

[@codymoe4986]

BTW, Boeing had a hand in the Lunar Rover, the ISS, the Space Shuttle, the Delta rocket, and SLS, which has successfully put a lunar capable, human rated spacecraft into orbit. How about you?

[@carcinogen60yearsago]

​@codymoe4986 Starliner can not go beyond LEO.

[@ThatOpalGuy]

good luck. I would have a hard time riding anything 'built' by Boeing

[@rkr9861]

This video is for Atlas V, not Starliner, and Atlas V has flown without issue so far, including on both Starliner flight tests.

[@codymoe4986]

United Launch Alliance, not Boeing... P.S. You must be pretty adept at building human rated rockets to be handing out "good luck's" as if they meant something...

[@robert8]

Honestly, I hate Boeing big time. My condolences to the test drivers.