SpaceX's biggest rivals are about to test-launch a new astronaut space taxi for the first time
The program is competition between private companies for billions of dollars' worth of government spaceflight development and flight contracts. On the practical and honorary side, though, it's also a push to restore NASA's ability to launch astronauts from American soil for the first time since July 2011 — the last time a space shuttle launched.of relying exclusively on Russia to taxi its astronauts to and from orbit aboard that nation's Soyuz spacecraft.
No people will ride aboard Starliner on its inaugural launch into orbit, a demonstration mission which Boeing calls the. Rather, the flight is designed to show the ship is safe to fly NASA astronauts to and from terra firma in the near future. Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft sits atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 41 in Florida on Dec. 5, 2019.Starliner now sits atop a United Launch Alliance -built Atlas V rocket in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The spacecraft is slated to lift off at exactly 6:36 a.m. ET on Friday, December 20, dock witha little more than 24 hours later, and return to Earth in one piece on December 27.
If all goes well with OFT, two men and one woman will climb aboard a Starliner in mid-2020 and become its first live crew members.An illustration of a NASA astronaut flying with Boeing's CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX's Crew Dragon space capsules.Starliner is one of two commercial space taxis NASA is paying to develop.
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