Washington (AFP) – American aerospace giant Boeing launched its Starliner capsule for the International Space Station Thursday in a critical uncrewed test flight that followed years of failures and false starts. The Orbital Test Flight 2 (OFT-2) mission blasted off at 6:54 pm Eastern Time (2254 GMT) from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, with the spaceship fixed atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. “Starliner is headed back to space on the shoulders of Atlas,” an announcer said on a NASA live feed. Its success is key to repairing Boeing’s frayed reputation after the first bid, back…