{"id":19757,"date":"2011-11-01T18:45:43","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T10:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/boeing-spaceship-emerging-from-space-shuttles-shadow\/"},"modified":"2011-11-01T18:45:43","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T10:45:43","slug":"boeing-spaceship-emerging-from-space-shuttles-shadow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/boeing-spaceship-emerging-from-space-shuttles-shadow\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing spaceship emerging from Space Shuttle\u2019s shadow"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_18946\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18946\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18946\" title=\"MTF10-0014-08_med\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/MTF10-0014-08_med.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/MTF10-0014-08_med.jpg 450w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/MTF10-0014-08_med-300x257.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/MTF10-0014-08_med-200x171.jpg 200w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/MTF10-0014-08_med-116x100.jpg 116w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-18946\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rendering of Boeing&#8217;s CST-100 approaching International Space Station. (Boeing image.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Boeing is showing that it\u2019s serious about developing a new spaceship, announcing that it will base the operations and manufacturing for its Crew Space Transportation program at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the longtime home of the Space Shuttle program.<\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s CST-100 spacecraft will hold up to seven people. It\u2019s designed initially for taking astronauts to the International Space Station, replacing the role of the&nbsp;decommissioned&nbsp;Space Shuttle orbiters, but Boeing says it will also be able to support private missions including flights to an orbital space complex planned by Bigelow Aerospace.<\/p>\n<p>Boeing\u2019s new facility in South Florida could employ up to 550 people by the time the program is operational in December 2015, but that\u2019s contingent on Boeing being selected for ongoing contracts to work with NASA\u2019s Commercial Crew Program.<\/p>\n<p>A number of private companies are vying for those contracts, although another Seattle-area company, Jeff Bezos\u2019 Blue Origin, declined to appear at a Congressional hearing on the Commercial Crew Program last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rendering of Boeing&#8217;s CST-100 approaching International Space Station. (Boeing image.) Boeing is showing that it\u2019s serious about developing a new spaceship, announcing that it will base the operations and manufacturing for its Crew Space Transportation program at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the longtime home of the Space Shuttle program. The company\u2019s CST-100 spacecraft [&hellip;]<\/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],"class_list":["post-19757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-aerospace","tag-boeing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19757"}],"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=19757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}