[Red Badger]

Boeing’s commercial CST-100 ‘Space Taxi’ will carry a crew of five astronauts to low Earth orbit and the ISS from US soil. Mockup with astronaut mannequins seated below pilot console and Samsung tablets was unveiled on June 9, 2014 at its planned manufacturing facility at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credit: Ken Kremer

Hatch opening to Boeing’s commercial CST-100 crew transporter. Credit: Ken Kremer

Boeing unveiled full scale mockup of their commercial CST-100 ‘Space Taxi’ on June 9, 2014 at its intended manufacturing facility at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The private vehicle will launch US astronauts to low Earth orbit and the ISS from US soil. Credit: Ken Kremer

[Celtic Conservative]

It’s just like the Apollo era command module. Isn’t this a step backwards?

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[Rebelbase]

Using this regression of space travel as an example, if the government were in charge of development of flight we should be changing back to propeller driven planes by now.

[fishtank]

Here's the Orion Module.

Yeah, it's the same shape as the Boeing and the Apollo, but it really does have capabilities quite in advance of the Apollo.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Seven person MAX capacity?

What will OSHA say if they have to use this to rescue 8 persons at the ISS?

[Vince Ferrer]

1. This is a model, not real hardware, and 2. Spacex looks well ahead of this.

[Sergio]

Hmmm...tablets. I wonder if they can watch Netflix while enroute?

[Dixie Yooper]

What if Putin won’t allow anymore of us back on the space station?

[TXnMA]

BFD!

It looks like Boeing's approach is to "go on the cheap" by sacrificing crew comfort and safety during acceleration -- in a second-hand Apollo Command module -- with toy avionics...

No wonder they used mannikins: no human could stay in those padless torture racks long enough to make the photos -- @ one gee!

Has any engineer here ever seen such an outlandish "******-rig"?