Boeing and NASA target December for second try at uncrewed orbital demonstration flight – TechCrunch:
NASA and Boeing have provided some updates around their Commercial Crew plans, which aim to get Boeing's CST-100 spacecraft certified for regular human flight. The CST-100 and Boeing's Commercial Crew aspirations hit a snag last year with a first attempt of an uncrewed orbital flight test, which did not go to plan thanks to a couple of software errors that led to an early mission ending, and a failure to reach the International Space Station as intended.
In a blog post on Friday, NASA said that it and partner Boeing were aiming to fly the re-do of that uncrewed test no earlier than December 2020. This will involve flying the fully reusable Starliner CST-100 without anyone on board, in a live, fully automated simulation of how a launch with crew would go, including a rendezvous and docking with the ISS on orbit, and a return trip and controlled landing and capsule recovery.
[...] Provided OFT-2 goes as intended for Boeing, Starliner could be ferrying its first passengers for a crewed demonstration launch as early as June 2021, with plans for a first operational mission now set for December 2021. All these dates are subject to change, of course.
(Score: 1) by RandomFactor on Tuesday September 01 2020, @09:51PM (2 children)
https://oig.nasa.gov/docs/IG-20-005.pdf [nasa.gov]
Soyuz - 86Million/seat
Boeing - 90Million/seat
SpaceX - 55Million/seat
SpaceX already nailed Fast and Cheap, any bets at this stage on which takes Better?
В «Правде» нет известий, в «Известиях» нет правды
(Score: 4, Insightful) by zocalo on Tuesday September 01 2020, @10:15PM
Even so, it's still competition, and that's generally a good thing to have in any market.
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
(Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Tuesday September 01 2020, @10:40PM
Dragon has 7 seats, NASA is only using up to 4 seats. ;)
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