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Boeing Unveils Blue Spacesuits for Starliner Crew Capsule

27 Jan , 2017 by Ken Kremer

Boeing has unveiled the advanced new lightweight spacesuits that astronauts will sport as passengers aboard the company’s CST-100 Starliner space taxi during commercial taxi journey’s to and from and the International Space Station (ISS) and other low Earth orbit destinations.

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Buildup Of First Boeing Starliner Crew Vehicle Ramps Up at Kennedy Space Center

29 Dec , 2015 by Ken Kremer

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – Buildup of the first of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner crew spaceships is ramping up at the company’s Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility (C3PF) – the new spacecraft manufacturing facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.

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Boeing ‘Starliner’ Crew Spaceship; America’s Next Ride to Space Takes Shape

5 Sep , 2015 by Ken Kremer

First view of the Boeing CST-100 ‘Starliner’ crewed space taxi at the Sept. 4, 2015 Grand Opening ceremony held in the totally refurbished C3PF manufacturing facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. These are the upper and lower segments of the first Starliner crew module known as the Structural Test Article (STA) being built at Boeing’s […]

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Congressional Slashes to NASA Commercial Crew Force Bolden to ‘Buy Russian’ rather than ‘Buy American’

11 Aug , 2015 by Ken Kremer

In the face of drastic funding cuts by the US Congress to NASA’s commercial crew program (CCP) aimed at restoring America’s indigenous launch capability to fly our astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS), NASA Administrator Charles Bolden is being forced to spend another half a billion dollars for seats on Russia’s Soyuz spacecraft instead […]

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NASA Names Four Astronauts for First Boeing, SpaceX U.S. Commercial Spaceflights

9 Jul , 2015 by Ken Kremer

NASA today (July 9) named the first four astronauts who will fly on the first U.S. commercial spaceflights in private crew transportation vehicles being built by Boeing and SpaceX – marking a major milestone towards restoring American human launches to U.S. soil as soon as mid-2017, if all goes well. The four astronauts chosen are […]

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Genesis of ULA’s New Vulcan Rocket Borne of Fierce Commercial and Political Pressures: Interview

23 Jun , 2015 by Ken Kremer

Fierce commercial and international political pressures have forced the rapid development of the new Vulcan launcher family recently announced by rocket maker United Launch Alliance (ULA). Vulcan’s “genesis” and development was borne of multiple unrelenting forces on ULA and is now absolutely essential and critical for its “transformation and survival in a competitive environment” moving […]

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NASA Orders First Ever Commercial Human Spaceflight Mission from Boeing

28 May , 2015 by Ken Kremer

The restoration of America’s ability to launch American astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) from American soil in 2017 took a major step forward when NASA ordered the first ever commercial human spaceflight mission from Boeing. NASA’s Commercial Crew Program (CCP) office gave the first commercial crew rotation mission award to the Boeing Company […]

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SpaceX Prepares for Crucial Crew Dragon Capsule Pad Abort Test

5 Feb , 2015 by Ken Kremer

SpaceX is preparing for the first of two critical abort tests for the firm’s next generation human rated Dragon V2 capsule as soon as March. The purpose of the pair of abort tests is to demonstrate a crew escape capability to save the astronauts’ lives in case of a rocket failure, starting from the launch […]

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Obama Administration Proposes $18.5 Billion Budget for NASA – Bolden

2 Feb , 2015 by Ken Kremer

The Obama Administration today (Feb. 2) proposed a NASA budget allocation of $18.5 Billion for the new Fiscal Year 2016, which amounts to a half-billion dollar increase over the enacted budget for FY 2015, and keeps the key manned capsule and heavy lift rocket programs on track to launch humans to deep space in the […]

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NASA, Boeing, and SpaceX to Launch 1st Commercial Crew Ships to Space Station in 2017

28 Jan , 2015 by Ken Kremer

After a hiatus of six long years, US astronauts will finally launch to space in a revolutionary new pair of private crew capsules under development by Boeing and SpaceX, starting in 2017, that will end our sole source reliance on the Russians for launching our astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS). Two years from […]

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