Boeing S Commercial Space Program
29 2018 photo made available by nasa commercial crew program boeing crew flight test astronauts butch wilmore left and chris ferguson participate in a flight control simulation.
Boeing s commercial space program. Boeing along with another company spacex is under contract to build a spacecraft to fly nasa s astronauts to the international space station as part of the space agency s commercial crew. The starliner was designed to accommodate seven passengers or a mix of crew and cargo for missions to low earth orbit. It is the largest commercial aircraft manufacturing company in terms of volume as well as revenue.
And building heavy lift human rated propulsion to deep space with the space launch system sls rocket. Soil with the cst 100 starliner commercial spacecraft. Boeing s crew space transportation cst 100 starliner spacecraft is being developed in collaboration with nasa s commercial crew program.
Government is the single largest customer for boeing and brought in almost 31 of. It is manufactured by boeing for its participation in nasa s commercial crew program. Boeing starliner officially cst 100 starliner is a class of reusable crew capsules expected to transport crew to the international space station iss and to private space stations such as the proposed bigelow aerospace commercial space station.
Ensuring successful delivery to earth s orbit with the united launch alliance ula joint venture between boeing and lockheed martin. Nasa and boeing continue to make progress toward the company s second uncrewed flight test of the cst 100 starliner spacecraft prior to flying astronauts to the international space station as part of nasa s commercial crew program. Returning crew launch capabilities to u s.
The boeing cst 100 starliner spacecraft was developed with nasa s commercial crew program and designed to send seven passengers or a mix of crew and cargo to the international space station in. New document reveals significant fall from grace for boeing s space program i have decided to eliminate boeing from further award consideration eric berger apr 10 2020 3 11 pm utc.