| Video Tools | |
 Email |
 Comments (5) |
 RSS |
 |
Space Ferry
Boeing’s new spacecraft, the Crew Space Transportation-100, flies a typical mission in this silent animated sequence: Launch in Florida, rendezvous and docking at the International Space Station, and return to Earth with a landing in White Sands, New Mexico using parachutes and airbags. Depending on NASA funding, Boeing hopes to have the CST-100 operational for missions to the ISS — or other destinations in low Earth orbit -- in 2015. (01:56)
Video: Boeing
Related Article
One Small Step for Boeing
The next pilots to fly a U.S. spacecraft may work for a private company.
By Paul Hoversten
Boeing's New Spaceship
The aerospace giant teams up with the world’s only space tourism agency to ferry passengers to orbit.
By Paul Hoversten
| Tweet | Digg |
Advertisement
|
Big Green Marble(05:15) |
|
A Mosquito in Flight(00:45) |
|
Flightseeing on Mount McKinley(01:46) |
|
A New Way to Navigate(02:01) |
Comments (5)
Hi
I feel very fortunate to live in this day and age! Very exciting time! Though my thoughts do return to the shuttle and how successful that was. The shuttle was key to the assembly of the International Space Station. I'm wondering two things..
Is there anyone else out there that feels the shuttle should be replaced with a newer version of it? The shuttle program was a huge success! Much was learned about construction in low earth orbit. Many game changing technologies were developed.. The refueling of satellites comes to mind..
This leeds to my second question. Who out there is thinking about the construction of a larger space ship in Low earth orbit. Using the same technologies used to build the International Space Station and large craft could be made in low earth orbit and flown out to it's destination then back to low earth orbit. The new Boeing capsule would be ideal for ferrying people up and down while the larger craft goes on the longer journey.. Or maybe an orbiting moon base or an orbiting Mars base built in low earth orbit then flown out to the moon or Mars to orbit either of them.
Posted by Paul Purcell on September 24,2010 | 07:47 PM
This spacecraft looks like a step back into the 60's. Why did we waste the shuttle years only to end up where we started. I remember the complaints that the shuttle would have us stuck in low earth orbit for 25 years, look like they were right.
Posted by Gordon on October 28,2010 | 02:43 PM
cool idea. It is great there is finally some progress.
Posted by eddie on November 16,2010 | 07:40 AM
Good point Gordon...the more thing change the more they stay the same....as far as the shuttle goes...it was the most expensive way to ferry goods into orbit, but it kept all of NASA divisions working, I knew one of VonBraun's team members, he wanted to use a cluster of F1 engines in a huge lifter to put up massive loads into LEO, it would have been a lot cheaper to do it that way, but a lot of people would have been out of work not to mention the contractors working on the shuttle...Hummmmmm
Posted by bradentonhome@gmail.com on March 21,2011 | 02:08 PM