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Boeing joins Starliner test article domes to form first 'full-blown capsule' [i]Boeing's plans to launch NASA astronauts to the space station took on a new shape this month, as a test vehicle for the company's commercial crew spacecraft came together in Florida. On May 2, engineers and mechanics working in the same hangar where space shuttles were once maintained joined the upper and lower pressure domes for Boeing's CST-100 Starliner Structural Test Article (STA). The test spacecraft's two halves formed Boeing's first example of the capsule.[/i]
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