NASA really wants SpaceX and Boeing to start shipping astronauts to the space station
Share to twitterAstronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley pose in front of a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft.Nearly a decade after an American astronaut launched from United States soil, NASA would really like it if one of its commercial crew companies could repeat the feat within a few months. But it’s unclear if this will happen.
But the pressure is on for the companies, as sources have told space journalists that NASA is concerned about the consequences if commercial crew doesn’t launch in the first half of 2020. One journalist even tweeted thatcould jeopardize the International Space Station, since more negotiations might be needed for seats on Russian spaceflights – and key NASA senior official Bill Gerstenmaier was removed from that duty several months ago under a larger agency reorganization for Artemis.
From left, astronauts Eric Boe, Nicole Mann and Chris Ferguson in front of the Boeing Starliner spacecraft.All International Space Station astronauts launch today using Russian Soyuz vehicles, which fly out of the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. It’s been that way since 2011, when NASA retired its aging space shuttle amid holding several competitive rounds to figure out modern commercial replacements.
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