Innerspace.net Commentary With the passing of the first week in September, NASA is presumably within a few weeks of announcing the winner or winners in the next phase of its Commercial Crew program. That phase, labeled Commercial Crew Transportation Capability or CCtCap, will see the selection of which firm is going to provide crew transport […]
Merlin 1-D Vacuum Engine Glows as it Drives Second Stage: Image Credit SpaceX Lit by the glow of 9 Merlin 1-D engines generating 1.3 million lbs. of sea level thrust, a SpaceX Falcon 9 V1.1 lifted off from Cape Canaveral in the early hours of Sunday morning, carrying with it the AsiaSat 6 communications satellite. […]
SpaceX lead astronaut Garrett Reisman gave a presentation to NASA’s Future In-Space Operations (FISO) working group on Wednesday. The presentation, entitled “Commercial Spaceflight” is available here in PDF on the FISO archives. The audio is here. While the talk does not reveal any significant new developments, it did shed a little more light on a […]
Image Credit : Boeing Boeing announced today that it has completed the final two of 20 milestones in the CCiCap phase of NASA’s Commercial Crew program. The announcement comes only weeks or even days ahead of a NASA’s award in the next and final phase of the program, Commercial Crew Transportation Capability, or CCtCap. According […]
NASA Press Release August 21, 2014 RELEASE 14-222 NASA and Commercial Partners Review Summer of Advancements NASA’s spaceflight experts in the Commercial Crew Program (CCP) met throughout July with aerospace partners to review increasingly advanced designs, elements and systems of the spacecraft and launch vehicles under development as part of the space agency’s Commercial Crew […]
As the second full week of August begins, we are approaching ever closer to a critical decision point in the future of American space transportation, an award announcement in the final phase of NASA’s Commercial Crew program. The next phase, called CCtCap, or Commercial Crew Transportation Capability is notionally set to be awarded in “August […]
On Friday, July 19th, NASA released a draft Request for Proposal for the next phase of the Commercial Crew competition, and with it came some new acronyms. Following Commercial Crew Integrated Capacity (CCiCap), the fourth and final phase will be called Commercial Crew Transportation Capability (CCtCap) and is intended to ” develop a U.S. commercial crew space transportation capability […]
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