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(240605) — WASHINGTON, June 5, 2024 (Xinhua) — A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft aboard blasts off from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, the United States, June 5, 2024. NASA and Boeing launched the first crewed mission of the Starliner spacecraft from the U.S. sta