KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — Early Tuesday morning, Boeing rolled out its Starliner spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center, getting ready for the anticipated Crew Flight Test to the International Space Station next month.

The rollout happened at the Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center during the early morning hours on Tuesday, April 16. The 16.5-foot-tall (5-meter) Starliner is heading to the Vertical Integration Facility at nearby Cape Canaveral Space Force Station to be connected to the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket, confirmed NASA.

The Boeing Crew Flight Test mission will take its maiden flight with astronauts Comdr. Barry “Butch” Wilmore and pilot Sunita “Suni” Williams as it will carry them to the ISS.

Currently, both NASA and Boeing are aiming for a Monday, May 6, launch at 10:34 p.m. ET, from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, the space agency stated.

“The duo will spend about a week at the orbiting laboratory before Starliner makes a parachute and airbag-assisted landing in the southwestern United States,” NASA stated.

If the mission is successful, NASA stated it will begin to finalize the process of certifying Starliner for crewed missions to the ISS.

Once Starliner is certified, Boeing will be the second U.S. private company to send people to the space station, the first being SpaceX.

The Starliner is about 15 feet (4.5 meters) in diameter and can carry four astronauts or a few crew members and cargo for NASA missions to low-Earth orbit. It can be steered manually or automatically. Boeing stated that its Starliner can carry up to seven people.

The spacecraft is reusable for up to 10 missions.