Even strapped to the Atlas V's combined 90,250 pounds of rocket fuel, the Starliner capsule fought hard to break away — firing up its own thrusters in a final burn in order to stabilize its elliptical orbit.

Boeing's Starliner is a human-grade space capsule designed to take astronauts to and from the International Space Station under NASA's Commercial Crew contract. To date, NASA has given Boeing nearly $5 billion to develop Starliner,

NASA astronauts from Boeing Starliner spacecraft joined the ISS after successfully docking despite thruster issues.

NASA’s Indian-origin astronaut Sunita Williams and her colleague Butch Wilmore have successfully docked Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) after overcoming new issues that cropped up en route to the orbiting laboratory.