06 November 2019
Boeing's ‘fewest steps to the Moon’ proposal for NASA’s Human Lander
... 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...
22 May 2020
Countdown to SpaceX’s historic Crew Dragon launch
... 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...
10 June 2019
NASA opens ISS to space tourists
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 ...
June 2020
Astrovan II - your ride to space is here
... 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...
April 2020
Is space poised to take another giant leap?
... 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...
March 2016
Space industrialisation needs balanced legal and policy approach
... 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...
