Four Private Companies are working on Manned Space capsules! The United States should be able to launch its astronauts to space using homegrown commercial spacecraft by 2017, NASA officials say. The four private companies NASA is counting on to develop manned spaceships — Boeing, Blue Origin, Sierra Nevada Corp. (SNC) and SpaceX — are notching the many milestones set by the space agencys commercial crew program (CCP), officials said. Already this year, NASA and its industry partners are making tremendous progress toward achieving the nation’s goal of restoring America’s capability to launch commercial passengers, including astronauts, from U.S. soil to low-Earth orbit, Kathy Lueders, CCP’s acting program manager, said in a statement. [Now Boarding: The Top 10 Private Spaceships]
Posted on: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 18:48:21 +0000
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