Tag: CST-100
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Video: Groundbreaking for commercial crew access tower
There was a groundbreaking Friday at Cape Canaveral’s Complex 41 to start building the astronaut access tower to board Boeing’s CST-100 capsules atop United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rockets.
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Launch America getting new access gantry for astronauts
CAPE CANAVERAL — A groundbreaking Friday ceremonially commenced construction of an astronaut access tower at United Launch Alliance’s Atlas 5 launch pad in Florida, a 200-foot-tall gantry that will add to the future of U.S. human spaceflight. Atlas 5 rockets will launch Boeing’s Crew Space Transportation-100 capsules starting in mid-2017, leading to NASA astronaut taxi…
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NASA presses Congress for more commercial crew funding
NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden speaks to reporters during a Jan. 26 press conference at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. Credit: NASA/Robert Markowitz The Obama administration has requested more than $1.2 billion from congressional appropriators next year to meet NASA’s funding commitments for Boeing and SpaceX’s commercial crew ferry spacecraft, and anything less could delay…
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Boeing’s CST-100 part of NASA’s intertwined forward path
Boeing Vice President John Elbon believes the CST-100 spacecraft is part of an intertwined forward path for NASA, centralized around the International Space Station. Boeing is currently working towards launching American astronauts to the orbital outpost on its CST-100 capsule, in tandem with developing the Space Launch System (SLS) that will allow for a return…
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Atlas 5 launch pad being prepared for astronaut crews
Artist’s concept of an Atlas 5 rocket and CST-100 crew capsule on the launch pad. Credit: United Launch Alliance Work on Boeing’s CST-100 commercial crew capsule will ramp up at the program’s new home base in Florida this year, with construction of a crew access tower at the Atlas 5 rocket’s launch pad underway and…
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Boeing expected to win first operational space taxi order
NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik participates in a fit check in a mock-up of Boeing’s CST-100 capsule. Credit: Boeing Boeing is poised to win NASA’s first order for operational commercial missions to send up astronauts to the International Space Station, a NASA official said Monday. The aerospace giant is one of two companies NASA selected to…
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Boeing, SpaceX on track for commercial crew flights to station in 2017
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS “SPACE PLACE” & USED WITH PERMISSION File photo of the International Space Station as seen by a space shuttle crew in 2010. Credit: NASA NASA expects to spend some $5 billion underwriting development of commercial spacecraft built by Boeing and SpaceX to carry astronauts to and from the International Space Station, officials…
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NASA outlines why it passed over Sierra Nevada
A prototype of Sierra Nevada’s Dream Chaser space plane conducted a taxi and approach and landing test campaign in 2013 at Edwards Air Force Base, California. Another landing test is planned for March. Credit: NASA NASA cited the complexity of Sierra Nevada’s Dream Chaser space plane and an uncertainty of when the proposed crew transport…
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GAO reaffirms NASA’s commercial crew decision
Boeing’s CST-100 spacecraft (left) and SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule (right) will carry U.S. astronauts between Earth and the International Space Station. Credit: Boeing/SpaceX/Spaceflight Now The U.S. Government Accountability Office has denied a protest filed by Sierra Nevada Corp. challenging NASA’s selection of competitors Boeing and SpaceX to build commercial human-rated space capsules to fly astronauts…
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2014’s top stories in spaceflight
The year ended with a deluge of big news, reminding us of the risks of spaceflight and the thin margins between success and failure on the final frontier. 2014 was also a year of breakthroughs in the exploration of the solar system and the future of human spaceflight. The Spaceflight Now editorial team has ranked…