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NASA Books Early Seats on Commercial Space Flights


NASA Books Early Seats on Commercial Space Flights Two years before planned commercial space taxis are scheduled to make their initial manned test flights, NASA already is in the midst of contracting for operational missions to carry working astronauts into orbit. A senior National Aeronautics and Space Administration official said the U.S. agency has formally ordered one such flight for Boeing Co. ’s CST-100 capsule to transport crew members to the international space station, and is talking with Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, about contracting for a similar flight. Kathryn Lueders, the agency’s program manager for commercial crew, also told a space conference here this week that by looking to contract for multiple flights, NASA is “laying the groundwork for the service and the crew rotation missions” that will be needed past the end of the decade.   More



(Source: Wall Street Journal - Sep 5)

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