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Boeing engineers on May 2 brought together the upper and lower domes for the first “full-blown” Starliner crew capsule inside a former space shuttle hangar at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mating formed the structural test article that Boeing will use to prove the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft is safe to fly astronauts to the space station beginning in early 2018.
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