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]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 29 2017, @03:15PM (3 children)
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
As far as Pluto! Buh huh huh huh.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 29 2017, @07:57PM
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
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.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday June 29 2017, @03:21PM (5 children)
I did not write that! Prefix it!
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Thursday June 29 2017, @03:51PM (3 children)
Do you have a suggestion that makes it sound less tortured? :P
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 3, Insightful) by tibman on Thursday June 29 2017, @04:46PM (2 children)
To me it reads like takyon wrote it. That what's the summary says. takyon writes: ... Any guesses on when the first commercial crew flight with actual human passengers will lift off?
If an editor added personal comments to the summary then maybe they should put their name over their comment? I'm not a submitter/editor, so i don't have any skin in it.
SN won't survive on lurkers alone. Write comments.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 29 2017, @05:33PM
SN needs a feature where readers can compare the Original Submission to the Story in unified diff format just like GitHub. SN needs to recognize GitHub accounts as registered users just like GitHub. SN needs to allow images in comments just like GitHub. In fact forget SN and let's just move SoylentNews directly into a GitHub wiki and forget about soylentnews.org entirely.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Thursday June 29 2017, @06:43PM
Yeah, I'd agree with that. In magazines don't they usually do an [-ed.] or something to denote editor comments?
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 3, Informative) by martyb on Thursday June 29 2017, @07:58PM
Update to story submission was mine. Updated story to own my update.
Wit is intellect, dancing.
(Score: 2) by pkrasimirov on Thursday June 29 2017, @04:41PM
> Any guesses on when the first commercial crew flight with actual human passengers will lift off?
You mean successfully? To orbit and back? I'd say 2019-2025. It depends on how soon someone figures out how to profit from human bodies in LEO. Also the next bitcoin bubble. And I guess it will be only one (series) for a while, much like the moon landings.
(Score: 2) by RamiK on Thursday June 29 2017, @08:16PM
https://www.space.com/16657-worlds-first-commercial-airline-the-greatest-moments-in-flight.html [space.com]
As for a commercial aerospace crew flight, Space Adventures have done as much for $20million: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_tourism [wikipedia.org]
As for a commercial aerospace crew flight operated and owned privately...
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