NASA Revises Plan to Buy Private Space Taxis
by Denise Chow, SPACE.com Staff Writer
Date: 15 December 2011 Time: 02:57 PM ET
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Helping to pave the road for the future of commercial
spaceflight, Boeing is hard at work on the research and development of a
new space capsule aimed at flying people to the International Space
Station. CREDIT: Boeing |
Facing an uncertain budget climate, NASA is changing its approach to funding the private development of astronaut-ferrying spacecraft under the space agency's Commercial Crew Development program, which could push back the start of U.S. commercial flights to and from low-Earth orbit by a year or more.
For the next phase of the CCDev program, NASA plans to use multiple, competitively awarded Space Act Agreements rather than fixed-price contracts, Bill Gerstenmaier, NASA's associate administrator for human exploration and operations, said in a news briefing.
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