04 August 2021
Starliner launch delayed indefinitely following "valve" problems
... station. Boeing is designing, building, testing and flying the CST-100 Starliner under a contract with NASA’s Commercial Crew Programme. The space agency is also funding SpaceX under the same deal to work on its Crew...
18 April 2020
SpaceX announces date of its first crewed flight to ISS
...’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley will...the safest, most advanced systems ever built, and NASA’s Commercial Crew Program is a turning point for America’s future ...
02 August 2020
Crew Dragon are on their way home
... Earth on Sunday in the first return of a commercially built and operated American spacecraft carrying astronauts from the space...station hardware. These activities are a part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, which has been working with the U.S. ...
11 November 2020
Senate deals major blow to Bridenstine’s Moon ambitions
... surrounding SpaceX’s crewed test flight of its Crew Dragon capsule. SpaceX built the capsule under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, which started under the Obama administration. NASA also announced on 10 November that it had certified...
30 July 2021
Starliner OFT-2 launch delayed following problems with Nauka module at ISS
... would have been the second uncrewed flight test of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner as part of the NASA’s Commercial Crew Programme, is now scheduled for no earlier than Tuesday at 1:20 pm EDT (17:20 GMT). "Currently, launch teams are assessing...
20 October 2021
Humidity likely cause of stuck Starliner valves say Boeing, as OFT-2 postponed until first half of 2022
... phenomena occurs it does so after 60 days said John Vollmer, Boeing Vice President and Program Manager for Commercial Crew. Because only 46 days had elapsed, there was no expectation of a problem and nothing had been flagged...
