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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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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