September 17, 2014

Artistic concept of the Boeing CST-100 and SpaceX Dragon V2 spacecraft near the International Space Station (Image NASA)

NASA has announced the selection of Boeing and SpaceX projects for the new manned spacecraft development phase. About two years ago, the two companies were among those which received funding in the Commercial Crew Program (CCP), the NASA program that aims to help the development of commercial space transportation. Now the contract called Commercial Crew Transportation Capability (CCtCap) is designed to complete the spacecraft with the idea of ​​getting to the transport of astronauts in 2017.