... for an additional spacecraft. Perhaps no surprise is that its key technologies are based on Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft, which will be used to transport crew to the International Space Station (ISS). The spacecraft completed a successful...
... sector of the commercial industry. NASA chose capsule designs from SpaceX and Boeing — Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner — at the time. This Crew Dragon test flight, called Demo-2 and required for NASA’s human certification...
As part of NASA’s mission to stimulate a low-Earth orbit (LEO) economy, the space agency is opening the International Space Station for commercial business by enabling up to two short-duration private astronaut missions per year, beginning as early ...
... It took a few laps around Titusville and was present for the Orbital Flight Test (OFT) of Starliner in December. Starliner itself is important because, after NASA’s Space Shuttle was decommissioned there were no options to launch American astronauts...
... precedent, this seems unlikely. Boeing cut short the uncrewed demonstration flight of its new astronaut capsule, Starliner, in December 2019 after it suffered technical problems that prevented it docking with the International Space Station. The...
... human-rated spaceship was officially named CST-100 Starliner after previously being known simply as CST-100....the International Space Station (ISS) is planned for May 2017. Starliner missions will carry four astronauts to the ISS and some cargo...