Page 27 - Commercial Crew Program News Today

NASA announced two astronauts it plans to send up on the crewed test flight of the Boeing CST-100 Starliner when it gets a chance to fly the International Space Station in an effort to join SpaceX as official Commercial Crew Program providers.

When it comes to making sure that engines and boosters for NASA’s SpaceX human spaceflight missions are safe to launch, Crystal Klemmer is at the forefront.

With the chance that SpaceX’s development of its new Starship rocket will pivot to Kennedy Space Center, NASA has reportedly been working with the company to consider contingencies for migrating astronaut launches to Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

Three astronauts will be inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame Saturday morning at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex

The companies would own the spacesuits, and NASA would become a customer, handing over the reins for what has already been a costly, years-long development for a new spacesuit design.

NASA has named the two commercial companies to which it’s outsourcing its future space duds.

NASA has named the two commercial companies to which it’s outsourcing its future space duds for use on both low-Earth orbit and moon missions.

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Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner launched on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket to the International Space Station on May 19.

NASA and Boeing landed the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft in New Mexico after the Orbital Flight Test-2, but such activity brings questions into the success of the mission. The space agency aims to recruit the airline company to manufacture spacecraft to take astronauts to and from the International Space Station.