DocM Posted December 13, 2012 Share Posted December 13, 2012 Doesn't sound like much, but it's mainly to document the safety of designs already in the pipeline for Dragon, Dream Chaser and CST-100. http://www.aviationweek.com/awmobile/Article.aspx?id=/article-xml/asd_12_12_2012_p02-02-527179.xml NASA Funds Commercial Crew Human-Rating WorkNASA will spend almost $30 million with the three companies it is backing to develop commercial crew spacecraft to begin safety-rating their vehicles to carry humans. Boeing, Sierra Nevada Corp. and SpaceX each will get 16-month contracts to begin producing the data that NASA will need to human-rate the companies? spacecraft, launch vehicles, ground systems and mission operations. Boeing will receive $9,993,000 for work on its CST-100 capsule; Sierra Nevada will get $10 million for its Dream Chaser lifting body, and SpaceX will be paid $9,589,525 to begin the human-rating tasks on its Falcon launch vehicle and Dragon spacecraft. A second phase of the ?certification products contracts? will begin in mid-2014, with ?full and open competition,? NASA says. That phase will lead to ?final development, testing and verifications necessary to allow crewed demonstration flight to the space station.? ?This is the program?s first major, fixed-price contract,? said Ed Mango, manager of the Commercial Crew Program at Kennedy Space Center. ?The effort will bring space system designs within NASA?s safety and performance expectations for future flights to the International Space Station.? The three companies are working under $1.1 billion in Space Act agreements awarded earlier this year to develop the next U.S. route to space for its astronauts under NASA?s post-shuttle plan to transition responsibility for transporting humans to low Earth orbit to the private sector. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Growled Member Posted December 15, 2012 Member Share Posted December 15, 2012 They will probably get a lot for their money in this case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redvamp128 Posted December 15, 2012 Share Posted December 15, 2012 Spend the budget some way instead of putting Space Shuttle's in the Sky. Here is an idea-The next joint venture----Some mulit billion dollar company + Reality TV + NASA... Survivor winner + Big Brother + Amazing Race winners all set to go into the International Space Station..or a weekly show on the crew's travel to mars and back.Add cameras + Special placed advertising. This will also be the way they fund the mission to Mars. or the Future Space program.How is that for forward thinking.... [/CODE] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Growled Member Posted December 16, 2012 Member Share Posted December 16, 2012 Here is an idea-The next joint venture---- Some mulit billion dollar company + Reality TV + NASA... Survivor winner + Big Brother + Amazing Race winners all set to go into the International Space Station.. or a weekly show on the crew's travel to mars and back. Add cameras + Special placed advertising. This will also be the way they fund the mission to Mars. or the Future Space program. Those that get voted off gets booted out the airlock? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redvamp128 Posted December 16, 2012 Share Posted December 16, 2012 Those that get voted off gets booted out the airlock? They get sent back to earth... -- Winner gets to be the FIRST person on Mars. Either that or we just send up the Jersey Shore Crew .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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