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Boeing Commercial Space Taxi and Atlas V Launcher Move Closer to Blastoff

June 1, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter The next time that American astronauts launch to space from American soil it will surely be aboard one of the new commercially built “space taxis” currently under development by a trio of American aerospace firms – Boeing, SpaceX and Sierra Nevada [...]

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Dream Chaser Readies, Gets Set For Flight Testing

May 22, 2013

It was surely one of those moments where NASA could hardly wait to tear off the shrink wrap. Sierra Nevada Corp.’s privately constructed Dream Chaser spacecraft engineering test article arrived at the Dryden Flight Research Center last week — wrapped in plastic for shipping protection — ahead of some flight and runway tests in the next [...]

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

January 13, 2013

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 orbit from American soil – perhaps as early as 2015 – which was totally [...]

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SpaceX’s Next Cargo Run to Space Station in October

August 23, 2012

SpaceX is scheduled to launch the first of its 12 contracted cargo flights to the International Space Station in October, 2012. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden announced Thursday at Kennedy Space Center that SpaceX is now fully certified to ferry cargo to the space station. While the company’s Dragon capsule did bring cargo to the ISS [...]

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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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