Stretch the fuselage a bit, slap in some windows...
Posted on 09/16/2014 2:28:57 PM PDT by Olog-hai
NASA has awarded the highly-anticipated space taxi contract to Boeing and SpaceX, a move which will end the agency’s reliance on Russian technology to transport U.S. astronauts to the International Space Station.
The Commercial Crew Transportation Capability contract aims to restore an American capability to launch astronauts from U.S. soil to the International Space Station by the end of 2017. Since the end of the Space Shuttle program in 2011, American astronauts have been transported to space on Russian-built Soyuz vessels. …
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SpaceX did.
/johnny
Yep. Space X has delivered stuff the ISS. Boeing? Not so much.
/johnny
/johnny
Stretch the fuselage a bit, slap in some windows...
Is Obama a Trekkie?
SpaceX is an Obama creation and is JV compared to Boeing.
/johnny
SpaceX hasn’t delivered anything without good old federal tax dollars. What SpaceX is doing is interesting and exciting but to say they are more accomplished than Boeing is something only an idiot or a drunk could support.
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