Boeing’s Starliner capsule docks for first time with International Space Station

High-stakes test follows two years of delays in a program designed to give Nasa another vehicle for sending astronauts into orbit

Boeing's new Starliner crew capsule has docked for the first time with the International Space Station, completing a major objective in a crucial test flight into orbit without astronauts aboard.

The rendezvous of the gumdrop-shaped CST-100 Starliner with the orbital research outpost, currently home to a seven-member crew, occurred on Friday nearly 26 hours after the capsule was launched from Cape Canaveral US Space Force Base in Florida.