CST-100 Spacecraft To Be Manufactured And Operated At Kennedy
Space Center
Boeing plans to consolidate its Commercial Crew program office,
manufacturing and operations at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), the
company announced Monday. Boeing, in partnership with Space
Florida, has an arrangement to use the Orbiter Processing
Facility-3 (OPF-3) to manufacture, assemble, and test the
company’s Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 spacecraft.
Witnesses Highlight Potential For Profitable Business
Models
The Committee on Science, Space, and Technology held a hearing
late last week to provide aerospace companies and NASA an
opportunity to testify about progress being made toward the goal of
establishing a commercial capability to fly humans to and from low
Earth orbit and the long-term non-Government commercial market for
private launch services.
Continuing With Docking Experiments With A Goal Of A Chinese
Space Station
China was expected to launch an unmanned spacecraft Tuesday
which will join the Tiangong-1 "Heavenly Palace" experimental
module boosted into orbit September 29. The two spacecraft will
conduct docking experiments as China moves towards construction of
its own space station.
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