NASA may accept shuttered its Amplitude Shuttle program, but we knew that wasn't the end of manned American trips to space. Today, NASA shelled out 1.1 billion dollars to three clandestine firms who accept been alive on spacecrafts of their own: Boeing, Sierra, and SpaceX.
Boeing has been alive on its CST-100 amplitude abridged for awhile now, even putting out an accessible alarm for abeyant pilots. But NASA pilots will aswell yield the helm, as NASA has accustomed the aerospace aggregation $460 actor to added advance the craft for use as aboriginal as 2016.
SpaceX will be modifying its Dragon Capsule—you know, the one that docked with the Interntational Amplitude Station—to bench seven aggregation members, and will use the Falcon 9 rocket to forward it up into orbit. Amplitude X says that their ability is the safest ever. And anticipation from the $440 actor in funding, NASA seems to agree.
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Sierra Nevada is not as big or able-bodied accepted as the added two companies, but its absolutely futuristic-looking Dream Chaser ability will be outfitted for seven NASA astronauts to bang off in. It seems the atomic complete of any of the projects, but Sierra Nevada still expects to complete the activity by 2016 and NASA will still throw $213 actor at the company to get it ready.
It'll still be a few years afore we get to see NASA acknowledgment to the skies in these crafts, but this is an agitative aboriginal footfall in the affiliation amid NASA and the clandestine sector. [NASA via The Verge]
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