Starliner pad abort liftoff
A Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft lifts off from a pad at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, in a test of the spacecraft's abort system.

NASA and Boeing said a pad abort test of the CST-100 Starliner commercial crew vehicle Nov. 4 was a success despite the failure of one of the capsule’s three parachutes to properly deploy.

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