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U.S. astronauts Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Sunita "Suni" Williams left Earth on Wednesday in a new Boeing spaceship, after a string of delays and engineering problems that spanned a decade. Following two scuttled launch attempts over the past month, the third try appeared to be the charm with a seamless countdown. Starliner's first crewed test flight blasted off at 10:52 a.m. ET from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. It is the sixth time in history NASA astronauts had launched on a new spacecraft.