Pictures: Launch day for Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner on Crew Flight Test

NASA, Boeing and United Launch Alliance were successful on their third try to send up astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams on the Crew Flight Test mission aboard the CST-100 Starliner on its first human spaceflight.

The duo saw a scrub on June 1 after previously attempting to launch on May 6 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station's Space Launch Complex 41 atop a ULA Atlas V rocket for a trip to the International Space Station.

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But finally on June 5, the duo made it to space lifting off at 10:52 a.m. with a 25-hour ride to the ISS ahead where they will stay for about eight days.

The plan is for the pair to test out manual maneuvers and the spacecraft's environmental controls on both the way up and ride down.

The pair will aim for a return to Earth with a landing in the desert in the southwestern United States.