NASA Press Release: This graphic depicts the goal of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program (CCP) heading into the Commercial Crew Transportation Capability contract known as CCtCap. This phase of the CCP will enable NASA to ensure a company’s crew transportation system is safe, reliable and cost-effective. The certification process will assess progress throughout the production […]
NASA released this statement on Friday, following SpaceX’s introduction of the Dragon V2 on Thursday evening. The last line, “NASA intends that U.S. providers market and use their systems for other customers” is somewhat interesting. Although marketability to other customers has been an inherent part of the Commercial Crew program from the very beginning, its […]
Following last week’s finding by a Federal Judge that the absence of any proof that sanctioned Russian Defense and Space minister Dimitry Rogozin was benefiting from the sale of RD-180’s was good enough to lift a temporary injunction against further purchases, it might have looked as if the issue was reverting back to the […]
NASA today released the following update regarding the Commercial Crew program. To a great extent, the fate and timing of the program are going to depend on whatever final budget emerges for FY 2015. So far, the program’s budgeting history has not been a happy one. The process will formally get underway on Tuesday, March […]
A NASA Commercial Crew Program update highlights one of the clear cases where progress in NewSpace suborbital space tourism is helping the orbital Commercial Crew program. Update below Virgin Galactic used a hybrid engine built by Sierra Nevada Corp. (SNC) Space Systems last Monday for the first powered test flight of the SpaceShipTwo, which is being […]
NASA held a press conference at the Kennedy Space Center yesterday to re-cap last year’s progress on the Commercial Crew Program and to look ahead at the agenda for 2013. Present were NASA Commercial Spaceflight Development director Phil McCalister, NASA Commercial Crew program director Ed Mango, and representatives of Blue Origin, Sierra Nevada, Boeing and SpaceX, as well as NASA […]
NASA announced the winners of the Commercial Crew Integrated Capability Contracts this morning, and the agency couldn’t have made a better decision. The awards went to Boeing ($460 million) SpaceX ($440 million) and Sierra Nevada ($212.5 million). This next phase of the program is scheduled to last until May 31st, 2014, and will see all three entrants perform […]
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