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NASA astronaut Barry “Butch” Wilmore takes a picture of a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft aboard after it was rolled out of the Vertical Integration Facility to the launch pad at Space Launch Complex 41 ahead of the Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) mission, Monday, Aug. 2, 2021 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Boeing’s Orbital Flight Test-2 will be Starliner’s second uncrewed flight test and will dock to the International Space Station as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program. The mission, currently targeted for launch at 1:20 p.m. EDT Tuesday, Aug. 3, will serve as an end-to-end test of the system's capabilities. Wilmore is scheduled to fly aboard Starliner’s Crewed Flight Test mission.