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Jasmine Hopkins, NASA Communications, moderates a press conference with Bob Cabana, NASA associate administrator, Kennedy Space Center director Janet Petro, Kathy Lueders, associate administrator for NASA's Space Operations Mission Directorate, and NASA astronauts Mike Fincke, Barry "Butch" Wilmore, and Suni Williams, ahead of the launch of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket, Wednesday, May 18, 2022, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center 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 on 6:54 p.m. ET on May 19, will serve as an end-to-end test of the system's capabilities.