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posted by martyb on Thursday June 29 2017, @01:41PM   Printer-friendly
from the onward-and-upward dept.

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2017/06/commercial-crew-providers-significant-progress-flights/

As the mid-way point of 2017 arrives, both of NASA's Commercial Crew Program service providers are making significant progress toward the first uncrewed test flights of their Dragon and Starliner capsules. At their second quarter 2017 meeting, the Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel [ASAP] noted this progress while also discussing outstanding concerns regarding the program and vehicles as well as the positive steps being taken to address these matters.

[...] Currently, SpaceX is on track to be the first to perform their uncrewed flight, known as SpX Demo-1, with Dr. Donald McErlean reporting to the ASAP that the flight continues to target a launch later this year.

Currently, both NASA and SpaceX hold that SpX Demo-1 will fly by the end of the year – though L2 level KSC scheduling claims the mission has potentially slipped to March 2018.

Regardless, SpX Demo-1 will be followed – under the current plan – by Boeing's uncrewed OFT (Orbital Flight Test) in mid-2018.

[Any guesses on when the first commercial crew flight with actual human passengers will lift off? --martyb]


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 29 2017, @03:15PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 29 2017, @03:15PM (#532966)

    Yes air travel is affordable to the pleb scum. Billionaires need to go farther to assert their membership in the plutocrats club.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 29 2017, @03:26PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 29 2017, @03:26PM (#532971)

    As far as Pluto! Buh huh huh huh.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 29 2017, @07:57PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 29 2017, @07:57PM (#533054)

    all the tech was developed with taxes money now the benefits get privatized so a few can make even more

  • (Score: 2) by turgid on Thursday June 29 2017, @07:58PM

    by turgid (4318) Subscriber Badge on Thursday June 29 2017, @07:58PM (#533055) Journal

    I'm more than happy for the billionaires to take the risk and shake out all the bugs. I dare say if I were a billionaire, I'd be involved, but alas no. I'm not against private space flight as long as they don't fill Earth orbit up with any more junk or ruin places like the Moon, Mars or asteroids before the scientists have had the chance to examine them thoroughly. All the while there are billionaires, I'll be thinking of cool things to invent to sell to them. It's a shame they don't pay a little bit more tax, though, so that we don't have people starving to death sick on the streets etc.