NASA's Commercial Crew Program Making Progress on Future of American Human Spaceflight
Posted on Aug 09, 2012 01:22:22 PM | John Entwistle | 0 Comments
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Through innovative partnerships with commercial rocket and spacecraft developers, NASA is making great strides to advance America's next human space transportation systems.
In 2010, President Barack Obama set the agency on a course to provide new transportation into space for its astronauts, while expanding human presence beyond low Earth orbit and enabling new missions of exploration across the solar system.
NASA's Commercial Crew Program was formed to facilitate the development of a U.S. commercial crew space transportation capability with the goal of achieving safe, reliable and cost-effective access to and from the International Space Station and low Earth orbit.
To read more about the progress of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, visit the Commercial Crew Program Feature page.
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Through innovative partnerships with commercial rocket and spacecraft developers, NASA is making great strides to advance America's next human space transportation systems.