{"id":19736,"date":"2012-05-03T20:39:55","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T12:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/pictures-boeing-drops-its-spaceship-from-14000-feet\/"},"modified":"2012-05-03T20:39:55","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T12:39:55","slug":"pictures-boeing-drops-its-spaceship-from-14000-feet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/pictures-boeing-drops-its-spaceship-from-14000-feet\/","title":{"rendered":"Pictures: Boeing drops its spaceship from 14,000 feet"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Boeing’s CST-100 descends from the sky over Arizona. (Image credits: Boeing)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

 Here\u2019s another milestone in the commercial space race: Boeing says it completed a successful test yesterday of the parachute drop system for its CST-100 spacecraft, releasing the capsule from a helicopter at 14,000 feet.<\/p>\n

\"\"Boeing says the test, conducted over the Delamar Dry Lake Bed near Alamo, Nev., involved the entire landing system of the CST-100 \u2014 using three parachutes to slow its descent and six air bags to cushion its landing.<\/p>\n

The company is developing the capsule as part of NASA\u2019s Commercial Crew Development program, in which private companies are competing to replace the Space Shuttle as a means of transporting up to seven astronauts to the International Space Station.  Boeing partner Bigelow Aerospace also plans to use the CST-100 to transport people to and from its space complex.<\/p>\n

Boeing is on schedule to conduct test flights of the CST-100 in 2015-16, using the Atlas V rocket.<\/p>\n

Another competitor in the commercial space race, SpaceX, is gearing up to become the first commercial company to dock a spacecraft with the International Space Station in the coming days.<\/p>\n

And Blue Origin, founded by Amazon\u2019s Jeff Bezos, last week said it completed a series of successful high-speed wind tunnel tests, helping to refine its spacecraft\u2019s aerodynamics.<\/p>\n

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Boeing’s CST-100 descends from the sky over Arizona. (Image credits: Boeing)  Here\u2019s another milestone in the commercial space race: Boeing says it completed a successful test yesterday of the parachute drop system for its CST-100 spacecraft, releasing the capsule from a helicopter at 14,000 feet. Boeing says the test, conducted over the Delamar Dry Lake […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[39,670,190],"class_list":["post-19736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-aerospace","tag-boeing","tag-nasa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19736"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}