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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.

NASA Receives Significant Budget Boost for Fiscal Year 2016

18 Dec , 2015 by Ken Kremer

NASA has just received a significant boost in the agency’s current budget after both chambers of Congress passed the $1.1 Trillion 2016 omnibus spending bill this morning, Friday, Dec. 18, which funds the US government through the remainder of the 2016 Fiscal Year.

NASA Orders First Commercial Crew Mission to Space Station from SpaceX

21 Nov , 2015 by Ken Kremer

Restoring America’s ability to once again launch US astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) from US soil on US rockets took another significant step forward when NASA ordered the first the agency’s first commercial crew rotation mission from the Hawthorne, California based-company SpaceX. NASA and SpaceX hope that the blastoff with a crew of […]

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 […]

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 […]

Buster the Dummy Strapped in for Mile High SpaceX Dragon Flight Test

2 May , 2015 by Ken Kremer

SpaceX and NASA are just days away from a crucial test of a crew capsule escape system that will save astronauts lives in the unlikely event of a launch failure with the Falcon 9 rocket. Buster the Dummy is already strapped into his seat aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon test vehicle for what is called […]

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 […]

NASA Orders Restart to Commercial Space Taxi Work

10 Oct , 2014 by Ken Kremer

Declaring that the future survival of the International Space Station (ISS) was “jeopardized,” NASA issued a statement late Thursday, Oct. 9, ordering Boeing and SpaceX to restart work to develop commercial crew vehicles under the Commercial Crew Transportation Capability (CCtCap) contracts awarded to each firm on Sept. 16. NASA took this action despite a protest […]

Protest Delays NASA Commercial Crew Spacecraft Work: Report

6 Oct , 2014 by Elizabeth Howell

NASA told two companies to halt work on the next phase of its commercial crew program — the spacecraft expected to replace Russian ones ferrying astronauts to the International Space Station — because of a protest related to the contract award, according to media reports. Sierra Nevada Corp. (SNC) filed a complaint on Sept. 26, […]

Boeing and SpaceX Win NASA’s ‘Space Taxi’ Contracts for Space Station Flights

17 Sep , 2014 by Ken Kremer

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – NASA Administrator Charles Bolden announced that Boeing and SpaceX have won the high stakes and history making NASA competition to build the first ever private ‘space taxis’ to launch American astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) and restore America’s capability to launch our crews from American soil for the […]

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