And here’s an exterior view of a Boeing Starliner under construction:

A Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft under construction at Kennedy Space Center.
A Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft under construction at Kennedy Space Center.
Image: Boeing

After both companies demonstrate their vehicles in missions without crew in August 2018, Boeing is expected to be the first to carry astronauts into space on a test mission scheduled for November 2018, with SpaceX to follow with a crewed demonstration flight in December 2018. However, industry and NASA sources expect both crewed test flights are to slip into 2019.

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