It was a picture perfect morning for a space launch.

And lift off of Starliner at Atlas 5,

carrying two American heroes drawing a line to the stars for all of us.

Boeing today successfully launched its new starliner space capsule

carrying two astronauts marking only the sixth inaugural journey of a crude spacecraft in US history.

The launch comes after several delays due to technical issues.

Yet today's launch occurred smoothly and on time,

and it comes four years after Elon Musk's rival SpaceX

launched its first mission with astronauts into orbit.

The Starliner will dock at the International Space Station tomorrow morning

and NASA astronauts Barry Butch

Wilmore and Senita Williams will spend a week before returning home.

For the latest on all of this we're joined again by our science correspondent Miles

O'Brien, always great to see correspondent, Miles O'Brien.

Always great to see a mile.

So tell us more about these veteran NASA astronauts,

Butch Wilmore and Sunny Williams, and what their primary goal is.

Yeah, veterans indeed.

They both have a lot of time in space.

Butch about 178 days on one long space station mission.

Sunny, 322 days over two long stints on the space station, both of the Naval

Avators, Sunny, a proud graduate of the Naval Academy, test pilots through and through.

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