NASA is preparing for the manned flight test of the Starliner spacecraft, which will carry astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suna Williams to the International Space Station for a week-long mission.

Designed to carry two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) in the agency’s Boeing Crew Flight Test, the spacecraft is ready to move from the manufacturing facility to the launch site. The Boeing Starliner spacecraft launched April 16 from NASA’s Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Center at Kennedy Space Center in Florida to the Vertical Integration Center at the nearby Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral for docking with United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket. He will set out towards .

The crewed test is scheduled to launch from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral on Monday, May 6, before 10:34 p.m. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will fly aboard the Starliner and dock in the forward port of the space station’s Harmony module. The duo will spend about a week in the orbiting laboratory before the Starliner lands with a parachute and airbag in the southwestern United States.

Following successful completion of the mission, NASA will begin the final process of certification of Starliner and its systems for crewed rotational missions to the space station. The 15-foot-diameter (4.56 m) Starliner capsule, with the option of automatic or manual control, will carry up to four astronauts or a mix of crew and cargo into low Earth orbit for NASA missions.