❖ Boeing has launched its very first astronauts bound for the International Space Station aboard a Starliner capsule with two Nasa astronauts aboard.

❖ It's the first time the vehicle has been entrusted to carry people after coming through a long and tortuous development programme.

❖ Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will be testing the capsule on a mission.

❖ Indian-origin astronaut Sunita Williams has become the first woman to fly a spacecraft on a test mission to space