• HOUSTON - Boeing has thrown open the hatch to its new commercial spacecraft, offering a first look inside the capsule it is building in a bid to fly NASA astronauts to the International Space Station. (space.com)
  • On Monday (July 22), two NASA astronauts were strapped into the capsule mockup to undergo flight suit evaluations aimed at validating the CST-100's interior design. (space.com)
  • The CST-100, however, is a new breed of spacecraft - a commercial vehicle that is owned, operated and partially-funded by the company, rather than by NASA. (space.com)
  • This insistence is based on the unfounded claim that only booster and spacecraft development directly controlled, funded and managed by NASA is likely to be completed by the date the vehicles are needed, while being safe and reliable enough to meet NASA's needs. (spacedaily.com)
  • NASA doesn't need it and the private sector can't afford it, but we have six-person spacecraft, so the only answer is to put five or six spacecraft on a big rocket, at least that's my guess right now. (usc.edu)
  • WASHINGTON - The Aug. 24 failure of a Russian Soyuz-U rocket carrying a Progress capsule filled with supplies for the international space station poses no immediate logistical threat to the well-stocked orbital outpost, according to a senior NASA official. (spacenews.com)
  • NASA is not sending a spacecraft toward the moon today after all. (kunc.org)
  • NASA shared that Boeing's CST-100 Starliner spacecraft did successfully complete the first land touchdown of a human-rated capsule at the White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico at 7:58 a.m. (lifeboat.com)
  • This human risk reduction is a hallmark of the NASA Commercial Crew Program which was put in place to alternatives to the Space Shuttle and Soyuz spacecraft. (lifeboat.com)
  • The inspection planned on Tuesday's spacewalk will include photo documentation of the site, and the collection of samples from any epoxy sealant that may be seeped through the hole to the outside of the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft, before the capsule undocks Dec. 19 with Prokopyev, outgoing station commander Alexander Gerst, and NASA astronaut Serena Aunon-Chancellor. (hardforum.com)
  • Orion capsule, with its eye catching solar arrays deployed (Credits: NASA). (spacesafetymagazine.com)
  • The alternative, being that NASA no longer has a reason to use the facility or the funding to maintain it, would have been to simply tear it down. (americaspace.com)
  • Called Dream Chaser, it is based on a small, plane-like craft called the HL-20 that NASA developed in the 1980s as an alternative to the space shuttle. (newscientist.com)
  • NASA also plans to use parachutes to land the shuttle's successor, a design called the Crew Exploration Vehicle that is based on the Apollo crew capsules of the 1960s and 70s. (newscientist.com)
  • Modified systems tested during the mission were ultimately designed for Soyuz capsules , which had to carry Russian, American and European astronauts to the completed orbital outpost beginning in 2009 . (russianspaceweb.com)
  • The Soyuz was expected to be the only bridge from Earth to the station during half a decade between the retirement of the Shuttle in 2010 and the introduction of NASA's Orion capsule or an alternative US spacecraft. (russianspaceweb.com)
  • Two Soyuz-U rockets intended to launch the Progress M-01M and Meteor-M spacecraft were shipped from their manufacturing plant in the Russian city of Samara to Baikonur Cosmodrome , Kazakhstan. (russianspaceweb.com)
  • This enlarged version of the Soyuz reentry vehicle shape was one alternative studied for the next-generation Russian launch vehicle. (astronautix.com)
  • But Michael Suffredini, NASA's space station program manager, noted that the Soyuz-U, which launches Progress cargo ships, is similar in design to the Soyuz-FG, a configuration used to launch crew-carrying Soyuz capsules. (spacenews.com)
  • With NASA's space shuttle fleet now retired, Russia's Soyuz rockets and capsules are the only means of delivering crews to the space station. (spacenews.com)
  • Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Sergey Prokopyev headed outside the International Space Station on Tuesday to cut away thermal and orbital debris shielding from a Russian Soyuz spacecraft and inspect the ship's hull, where the station crew repaired a minor air leak in August. (hardforum.com)
  • Last December, coolant leaked from a Soyuz crew capsule docked to the station, and another similar leak from a Progress supply ship was discovered in February. (fourstateshomepage.com)
  • Parachutes have been used to land previous US crews in the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programmes and are currently used to return Russia's Soyuz spacecraft to Earth. (newscientist.com)
  • View inside Boeing's mockup of its CST-100 commercial capsule designed to take astronauts to low Earth orbit. (space.com)
  • Shepard named his space capsule Freedom 7 , setting a precedent for the remaining six Mercury astronauts naming their spacecraft. (wiki2.org)
  • The number 7 was included in all the crewed Mercury spacecraft names to honor NASA's first group of seven astronauts . (wiki2.org)
  • Astronauts will take off from the capsule Orion , launched to the Moon by NASA's new SLS Mega rocket. (pakistannewsco.com)
  • The Orion service module is a cylindrical, 4.5-meter-wide bundle of fuel tanks, power cables and engine nozzles that bolts beneath the gumdrop-shaped crew capsule that houses astronauts. (planetary.org)
  • SpaceDev, an aerospace company based in California, US, has announced plans to build a spacecraft that will carry both tourists and astronauts into orbit. (newscientist.com)
  • Bolden also brushed aside an old subcommittee idea, advanced this time by Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-Ala.), of anointing a single Commercial Crew provider so that the program's budget could be trimmed and the balance poured into the Space Launch System (SLS) heavy-lift rocket being developed at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., and its companion Orion crew capsule. (space.com)
  • Another critical test will come with the Orion capsule. (kunc.org)
  • NASA's next manned spacecraft will be the Orion, a capsule which will be carried into space by a rocket. (armaghplanet.com)
  • NASA's Orion spacecraft makes progress, but are the agency's lunar plans on track? (planetary.org)
  • A key piece of NASA's Orion spacecraft has arrived in Florida for processing ahead of a test flight to lunar orbit in 2020. (planetary.org)
  • At its Houston Product Support Center located near NASA's Johnson Space Center, Boeing revealed its first full-scale model of the CST-100 , a gumdrop-shaped spacecraft that can seat up to seven crew members. (space.com)
  • To design the CST-100 space capsule and the interior of its crew cabin, Boeing engineers drew from the company's experience as the lead space shuttle contractor, as well as its heritage building the command module for NASA's Apollo program and its rejected bid for the agency's Orion crew exploration vehicle. (space.com)
  • So NASA's going to be stress testing this capsule to the max, spending six weeks in space orbiting the moon. (kunc.org)
  • Boeing, in collaboration with NASA's Commercial Crew Program (CCP), plans to begin building their CST-100 spacecraft next year, using the former OPF-3 as their new Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility. (americaspace.com)
  • SpaceDev also has ties with the space agency, helping NASA's Ames Research Center explore different spacecraft concepts. (newscientist.com)
  • Genesis Engineering will contribute its "Single Person Spacecraft" system, which the company describes as an alternative to a spacesuit. (financial-broadcast.com)
  • Orbital Reef changes that with the Single Person Spacecraft, an efficient and tourist-safe alternative," said Brand Griffin, Program Manager for Genesis Engineering Solutions. (redwirespace.com)
  • The U.S. Air Force has denied the company's request to land the capsule at a Utah training area, and Varda is still awaiting a reentry license from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). (robots.net)
  • Varda Space Industries faces delays in reentering its capsule due to the denial of a landing request by the U.S. Air Force and the absence of a reentry license from the FAA. (robots.net)
  • Initially, Varda had planned for a mid-July reentry of its capsule but faced setbacks due to the denial of the landing request. (robots.net)
  • In this reentry mission, Varda is utilizing Rocket Lab's Photon spacecraft, and they have plans for at least three subsequent missions. (robots.net)
  • After reentry, Rocket Lab's spacecraft will disintegrate in the atmosphere, while Varda's capsule will deploy parachutes and make a controlled landing on Earth. (robots.net)
  • At the time of reentry, the spacecraft would be maneuvered to the appropriate orientation and equipment adaptor section would be detached and jettisoned, exposing the retrorocket module. (spacefacts.de)
  • They would fire to initiate the spacecraft reentry into the atmosphere, with attitude being maintained by a reentry control system of 16 engines, each with 5.2 N thrust. (spacefacts.de)
  • Commander Tang Hingbo and his team will be going there for the next three months, and the current Taikonauts will be returning in the previous Shenzhou's reentry capsule in the coming days. (parabolicarc.com)
  • Liftoff took place August 6 at 8:57 AM Moscow time and booster performance was almost flawless, placing the spacecraft into a 184x244 km orbit. (wikipedia.org)
  • The spacecraft - mounted on a Long March 2F rocket - was launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northern China on 4 September and safely returned to Earth after two days in orbit. (bbc.com)
  • The spacecraft also released an unknown object into the orbit before returning to Earth. (bbc.com)
  • The spacecraft would be placed in a 135 km x 440 km, 51.6 deg orbit on the baseline mission to the ISS. (astronautix.com)
  • I'm afraid that if we don't finance it, somebody else will, and while we're sending capsules and landers to the moon, they'll be taking over tourism in low-Earth orbit and going to our space station," he said. (usc.edu)
  • He also tested the retrorockets which would return later missions from orbit, though the capsule did not have enough energy to remain in orbit. (wiki2.org)
  • Pending any substantial problems arising from testing, the Virgin Galactic craft is set to be the first commercially available spaceflight enterprise, although SpaceX's Dragon capsule has since been launched into orbit and returned to Earth. (aerospace-technology.com)
  • A massive booster stage pushes a spacecraft out of Earth orbit. (armaghplanet.com)
  • The capsule's casings came off as planned, but the capsule itself went astray into an orbit somewhat similar to that of the mystery object, and was eventually declared lost. (skeptoid.com)
  • Boeing's new model of the CST-100 spacecraft as seen at the company's Houston Product Support Center in Texas. (space.com)
  • The investigation documented 61 "corrective actions" for the company's Starliner spacecraft. (lifeboat.com)
  • Among many alternatives, Aldrin's company has investigated some new reusable launch vehicle designs that would bring down costs and increase the reliability of rockets. (usc.edu)
  • Some of us who have vivid memories of famous spacecraft and rockets that 'had their day' in the consciousness of the world may wonder what prominent space agencies are working on today that in stature could match their former technological achievements. (armaghplanet.com)
  • The retrorocket section held the re-entry rockets for the capsule. (spacefacts.de)
  • Although the Atlas-V is the choice for the first launch, the spacecraft itself will be compatible with multiple launch vehicles, such as the ULA Delta-IV and SpaceX Falcon-9 rockets. (americaspace.com)
  • Instead of cryogenic liquid hydrogen or oxygen fuel, the spacecraft will use "hybrid" rockets that burn liquid nitrous oxide - laughing gas - and solid rubber. (newscientist.com)
  • According to a transmission to space station Commander Andrey Borisenko from the top Russian ground controller at Mission Control Moscow, communications with the rocket and cargo capsule were lost shortly after the launch went awry. (spacenews.com)
  • Amongst others, including the Boeing CST-100 capsule, Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket and PlanetSpace's Canadian Arrow vehicle, Reaction Engine's Skylon hypersonic aircraft could also pose substantial competition for Branson's spaceflight venture. (aerospace-technology.com)
  • Blue Origin plans to use its rocket New Glen to launch both its lander and this spacecraft, which has never flown before. (pakistannewsco.com)
  • The battery-powered CST-100 spacecraft is expected to launch a crew of up to seven atop a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas-V rocket from Space Launch Complex-41 at nearby Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, which is a little more than seven miles away from C3PF. (americaspace.com)
  • essentially an inflatable space station module), and plans to use its Dream Chaser spacecraft to transport cargo and crew to-and-from the station. (financial-broadcast.com)
  • Within this site, a disc was discovered in the 23rd chamber, not unlike the "golden record" that was developed by Carl Sagan for the Voyager spacecraft. (wingmakers.com)
  • The successful flight marked the country's important breakthrough in reusable spacecraft research and is expected to offer convenient and low-cost round-trip transport for the peaceful use of space,' state-run Xinhua News Agency said on 6 September in a brief report. (bbc.com)
  • A reusable spacecraft - as the name implies can undertake multiple trips to space - thereby potentially lowering the overall cost of launch activity. (bbc.com)
  • The aerospace giant also plans to utilize its Starliner capsule for transporting crew and cargo to the station. (financial-broadcast.com)
  • Boeing's approach to the Starliner is unique as the prior US-made capsules, including the SpaceX Dragon, are water recoveries. (lifeboat.com)
  • Given the trajectory and the energy of the spacecraft at the time, the vehicle impacted in the Altai region of the Russian Federation," Suffredini said. (spacenews.com)
  • The Skylon vehicle, developed in the UK and primarily designed for haulage and satellite launch purposes, has also been vetted as a possible alternative for commercial spaceflight. (aerospace-technology.com)
  • In the upcoming weeks you will be hearing in the news the words "Dragon Spacecraft", so Sinead McNicholl has the full story on what exactly this new vehicle is and what it will be used for. (armaghplanet.com)
  • Prime pilot: Gherman Titov - only spaceflight Backup pilot: Andrian G. Nikolayev Reserve pilot: Grigori Nelyubov Mass: 4,731 kg (10,430 lb) Perigee: 183 km (114 mi) Apogee: 244 km (152 mi) Inclination: 64.93° Period: 88.46 minutes Gherman Titov launched from Gagarin's Start at Baikonur Cosmodrome on 6 August 1961 at 06:00 UTC aboard the Vostok 2 space capsule. (wikipedia.org)
  • Shenzhou-17 is named after the Shenzhou spacecraft, which is the key craft in the Chinese crewed spaceflight program. (parabolicarc.com)
  • During the flight, Shepard observed the Earth and tested the capsule's attitude control system , turning the capsule around to face its blunt heat shield forward for atmospheric re-entry. (wiki2.org)
  • In its current configuration, the capsule seats five, trading two additional seats for more cargo room. (space.com)
  • Taxi" vehicles carrying cargo and passengers could rendezvous with these orbiting spacecraft for trips to both planets. (usc.edu)
  • There are two international alternatives for delivering cargo, one operated by Europe and one by Japan, as well as two U.S. commercial systems in development and expected to enter service next year. (spacenews.com)
  • The capsule provided a total of 12 cubic meters of habitable volume, or 2 cubic meters per crew member. (astronautix.com)
  • The service module provides propulsion, consumables, and power to the crew capsule and is discarded shortly before re-entry. (spacesafetymagazine.com)
  • Artist's concept of Boeing's CST-100 crew capsule approaching the International Space Station. (americaspace.com)
  • With the help of the motion simulation, he was able to experience realistically as a pilot how the spacecraft behaves in critical phases of the Moon landing and to intervene in a supervisory role. (dlr.de)
  • A seamless interaction between pilot and spacecraft is crucial to ensuring a successful Moon landing. (dlr.de)
  • It started with the Artemis 1 mission, which sent a spacecraft around the unmanned moon last fall. (pakistannewsco.com)
  • Lockheed Martin is supposed to build a type of spacecraft that will be responsible for refueling the Blue Moon around the moon. (pakistannewsco.com)
  • With the removal of legacy Space Shuttle Program infrastructure, the building will be transformed into a clean factory system layout for spacecraft production and refurbishment," said Chuck Hardison, Boeing's manager of CST-100 Production and Ground Systems. (americaspace.com)
  • A traditional one-off spacecraft - costing tens of millions of dollars - is practically rendered useless after a single mission. (bbc.com)
  • Varda's manufacturing capsule, weighing 120 kilograms, is mounted on top of the Photon, which provides the necessary power, data capabilities, and attitude control for the mission. (robots.net)
  • Landing precision was within 11 kilometers of the aim point, and 70% of the capsule could be reused after a mission. (astronautix.com)
  • It had originally been expected that a mission could be launched soon after the spacecraft was available, but Capsule #7 turned out to require extensive development and testing work before it was deemed safe for flight. (wiki2.org)
  • However, as it had been earmarked since the summer as the first crewed spacecraft, the decision was taken to delay the mission until this particular capsule was ready, with a tentative launch date of March 6, rather than use an alternative capsule. (wiki2.org)
  • The launch went as planned, but its mission to eject its 136 kg capsule didn't go so well. (skeptoid.com)
  • Boeing hopes to have their spacecraft ready to fly an initial three-day crewed orbital test flight in 2016, with the first mission to the ISS following in 2017-assuming funding and development contracts all go as planned. (americaspace.com)
  • Now, with the shuttle program a fading memory, one of these "excess government buildings" is being converted into a next-generation commercial facility for Boeing to build their CST-100 spacecraft, and the company recently finalized a deal with Space Florida to do just that. (americaspace.com)
  • On Sunday, a capsule containing pieces from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu entered Earth's atmosphere, landing in Utah's West Desert. (rvforum.net)
  • As a test pilot in the simulator in Oberpfaffenhofen, the ESA astronaut was able to experience how a spacecraft behaves during critical flight phases and intervene to control it. (dlr.de)
  • We'll have defined factory positions to support different phases of the spacecraft being built. (americaspace.com)
  • The DLR Robotic Motion Simulator is based on an industrial robot arm with a flight deck capsule attached to the end. (dlr.de)
  • Space Exploration Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for spacecraft operators, scientists, engineers, and enthusiasts. (stackexchange.com)
  • Varda, however, confirmed that its spacecraft is functioning well across all systems and that the company is working closely with regulators to ensure a safe return to Earth. (robots.net)
  • For the test campaign at DLR in Oberpfaffenhofen, the capsule of the DLR Robotic Motion Simulator was converted into a lunar module. (dlr.de)
  • He went on to support lunar mining, and production of liquid oxygen for use in re-fueling commercial spacecraft ( Space News 4/3/06). (spacedaily.com)
  • The capsule provided sufficient lift for a cross-range only 75 km to either side of the ballistic re-entry landing point, and 400 km along the orbital track. (astronautix.com)
  • An early American spacecraft that survived two launches has touched down at a museum in Long Island, New York. (space.com)
  • Vittori was able to intervene within a given time window and select an alternative landing site free of boulders via touch screens. (dlr.de)
  • This site and its artifacts were called ETC or Extraterrestrial Time Capsule. (wingmakers.com)
  • Varda is collaborating with regulators to address concerns and determine alternative plans for a safe and successful return. (robots.net)
  • This would also require an International Docking Adapter (IDA) would need to be attached to the Pressurised Mating Adapter-1 (PMA-1) for one of the Dragon capsules. (stackexchange.com)
  • Each system was frequency-modulated with a minimum power of 2 W. Spacecraft tracking consisted of two C-band radar transponders and an acquisition-aid beacon. (spacefacts.de)
  • But there are some design alternatives that we're looking at, from diapers to mechanical devices. (space.com)