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Private Test Pilots to Fly 1st Commercial Crewed Space Flights for NASA

January 13, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter Image Caption: Dream Chaser commercial crew vehicle built by Sierra Nevada Corp docks at ISS Commercial test pilots, not NASA astronauts, will fly the first crewed missions that NASA hopes will at last restore America’s capability to blast humans to Earth [...]

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NASA Announces Winners in Commercial Crew Funding; Which Company Will Get to Space First?

August 3, 2012

NASA announced today the winners of the third round of commercial crew development funding, called the Commercial Crew Integrated Capability (CCiCap). This will ultimately allow commercial space companies to be able to provide commercial human spaceflight services for both NASA and other commercial customers. The winners are SpaceX ($440 million), Boeing ($460 million) and Sierra [...]

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Heart-Pounding Breakout Videos for the Commercial Crew Program

June 25, 2012

This week, NASA is highlighting some of the commercial companies that are collaborating with the space agency in the Commercial Crew Development, Round 2. Some dramatic music, fast-paced video and a few animated high-fives are enough to get anyone excited about the future. We start with SpaceX and the latest on the Dragon crew capsule. [...]

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Boeing To Use Shuttle Hangar for CST-100 Space Taxi

October 31, 2011

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla – NASA hosted an event on Monday, Oct. 31, at 10 a.m. EDT at Kennedy Space Center’s Orbiter Processing Facility-3 (OPF-3) to announce a new partnership between NASA, Space Florida and Boeing. Space Florida in turn will lease OPF-3 to Boeing. Under the terms of this arrangement, Boeing will use OPF-3 to [...]

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Commercial Crew Assessments Carry On with CST-100 Wind Tunnel Tests

October 21, 2011

Boeing recently began wind tunnel testing on its CST-100 (Crew Space Transport) capsule, designed to service destinations in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), locations like the ISS and Bigelow Space Stations. These tests have been on going since Sept. 17th of this year, collecting data on “20 different positions to mimic the different phases of an [...]

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