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NASA's Commercial Crew Program: "Our Destiny Lies Above Us"

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Дата загрузки: 3 авг. 2018 г.

NASA's Commercial Crew Program is poised to return America's capability to launch U.S. astronauts from our nation's soil to the International Space Station.

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Meet the Astronauts Flying Boeing's Crew Flight Test

Marie Lewis
Posted Aug 3, 2018 at 11:18 am


Fr om left: Eric Boe, Nicole Mann, Chris Ferguson

Targeted to launch in mid-2019 aboard a Starliner spacecraft atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

The crew:

Eric Boe was born in Miami but grew up in Atlanta. He came to NASA from the Air Force, wh ere he was a fighter pilot and test pilot and rose to the rank of Colonel. He was sel ected as an astronaut in 2000, and piloted space shuttle Endeavour for the STS-126 mission, and Discovery on its final flight, STS-133.

Chris Ferguson is a native of Philadelphia. He is a retired Navy captain, who piloted space shuttle Atlantis for STS-115, and commanded shuttles Endeavour and Atlantis on STS-126 and STS-135 – the final flight of the space shuttle program. He retired fr om NASA in 2011, and has been an integral part of Boeing's CST-100 Starliner program.

Nicole Aunapu Mann is a California native and a Lieutenant Colonel in the Marine Corps.  She is an F/A-18 test pilot with more than 2,500 flight hours in over 25 aircraft. She was selected as an astronaut in 2013, and this will be her first trip to space.

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Meet the Astronauts Assigned to Boeing's First Mission

Marie Lewis
Posted Aug 3, 2018 at 11:22 am


Fr om left: Josh Cassada, Suni Williams

These two NASA astronauts will launch to the International Space Station for a long-duration mission aboard Boeing's CST-100 Statliner atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

The crew:

Josh Cassada grew up in White Bear Lake, Minnesota. He is a Navy Commander and test pilot with more than 3,500 flight hours in more than 40 aircraft. He was sel ected as an astronaut in 2013. This will be his first spaceflight.

Suni Williams was born in Euclid, Ohio, but her hometown is Needham, Massachusetts. Suni came to NASA fr om the Navy, wh ere she was a test pilot and rose to the rank of Captain. Since being selected as an astronaut in 1998, she has spent 322 days in space, commanded the International Space Station and performed seven spacewalks.

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NASA reveals crews for first flights of commercial spaceships
August 3, 2018 | Stephen Clark


NASA introduces the astronauts assigned to the first flights of Boeing's CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now

NASA announced Friday a mix of spaceflight veterans and rookie astronauts who will launch on the first flights of new Boeing and SpaceX commercial spaceships starting as soon as next spring, several months later than previously scheduled.

In a ceremony at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, the space agency revealed nine astronauts assigned to the first four crewed flights of Boeing's CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsules.

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"For the first time since 2011, we are on the brink of launching American astronauts on American rockets fr om American soil," said NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine.

Former shuttle commander Chris Ferguson, who helmed the final flight of the shuttle Atlantis in 2011, will lead a three-person crew on the first piloted mission of Boeing's CST-100 Starliner capsule. Ferguson, now a Boeing employee, will be joined by veteran shuttle pilot Eric Boe and rookie astronaut Nicole Mann on the CST-100's Crew Test Flight, scheduled for liftoff in May 2019.


Boeing test pilot Chris Ferguson is helped into his spacesuit ahead of emergency egress training at United Launch Alliance's Atlas 5 launch pad at Cape Canaveral in June. Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett

A two-man team of NASA astronauts will ride SpaceX's Crew Dragon into orbit on its first crewed test flight, targeted for launch in April 2019. NASA astronaut Bob Behnken, an experienced spacewalker who flew on two shuttle missions, will strap into the Crew Dragon alongside former shuttle pilot Doug Hurley.

Both capsules will fly to the International Space Station on their first crewed test flights, blazing a trail for future crews to ride to and from the orbiting research complex on operational crew rotation missions, ending NASA's sole reliance on Russian Soyuz spacecraft for the job.

NASA also unveiled part of the crews who will ride the CST-100 and Crew Dragon's first regular crew rotation flights, called "post-certification" missions by the space agency and its contractors.

On Boeing's first post-certification mission, NASA astronaut Suni Williams, who has flown on the space station two times already, will fly to the outpost again with first-time space flier Josh Cassada.


From left to right: Suni Williams, Josh Cassada, Eric Boe, Nicole Mann, Chris Ferguson, Doug Hurley, Bob Behnken, Mike Hopkins, and Victor Glover. Credit: NASA

Veteran station flight engineer Mike Hopkins will be accompanied by rookie astronaut Victor Glover on the Crew Dragon's first operational flight to the station.

NASA's partners on the International Space Station program — the Russian space agency Roscosmos, the European Space Agency, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, and the Canadian Space Agency — are expected to assign members of their own astronaut corps to the CST-100 and Crew Dragon crew rotation flights.

The space agency says each post-certification flight by the CST-100 Starliner and Crew Dragon spacecraft will carry four passengers on half-year expeditions to the space station. Boeing and Space Adventures, the U.S. company that arranged space tourist flights on Russian Soyuz spacecraft, have a partnership that could allow paying passengers to ride in a fifth seat on CST-100 missions for shorter-duration missions.

Under the Obama administration, NASA decided to turn over responsibility for carrying astronauts to and from low Earth orbit to the private sector after the retirement of the space shuttle in 2011. The agency sel ected Boeing and SpaceX for the task in 2014, awarding contracts to each company valued at $4.2 billion and $2.6 billion, respectively.

Originally designed in the 1970s, with upgrades added through the following three decades, the space shuttle was part-crew carrier, part-cargo truck. The new-generation commercial vehicles supporting the space station come in two versions, with SpaceX and Northrop Grumman providing cargo services, and SpaceX and Boeing carrying astronauts.

"The space shuttle, I think what we've really discovered, at least in my part over the last three or four years working in commercial crew, was that vehicle was really capable, and it's super-hard to dupicate it in the short period of time we've had," Behnken said Friday. "It had decades to kind of mature to wh ere it was when we got our chance to fly it.

"It's hard to kind of create a vehicle that accomplishes what that vehicle did so wonderfully and so majestically," Behnken said.

While they lack the size and lift capacity of the shuttle, but the new commercial ships benefit from numerous advancements in technology, and they are both designed to be safer — and less expensive — than the shuttle.

"With 40 years difference in avionics and technology development, we have squeezed a lot more into a smaller ship, you see a lot of that, a lot more capability in terms what the vehicles can do," Ferguson said. "I think what we really see now is a much greater emphasis on safety. We're returning to a full capability ascent abort system to keep astronauts safe all the way throgh the profile, and that's something that the shuttle didn't have."

Boeing's capsules will launch aboard United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rockets from Cape Canaveral, dock with the International Space Station for stays of up seven months, and return to Earth for landings in the Western United States with the aid of parachutes and airbags.


NASA astronaut Nicole Mann is helped into her spacesuit ahead of emergency egress training at United Launch Alliance's Atlas 5 launch pad at Cape Canaveral in June. Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett

Built to the same basic NASA requirements, SpaceX's Crew Dragon vehicles will launch from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center, a former shuttle launch facility, on the company's own Falcon 9 rockets, then return to parachute-assisted splashdowns at sea.

Mann, a F/A-18 test pilot in the Marine Corps before joining NASA, said the launch of space crews fr om U.S. soil will be "a proud moment for America."

"I'm just grateful to be able to help usher in this new era of American spaceflight," Mann said. "As a test pilot, it doesn't get any better than this."

Hurley, also Marine Corps fighter pilot-turned-astronaut, said test pilots dream of taking a new vehicle into the sky for the first time.

"The first flight is something you dream about as a test pilot, and you don't think it's ever going to happen to you," he said. "But it looks like it might."

"Announcing the crews today is an important milestone in our journey of exploration," said Bob Cabana, a former astronaut and director at KSC. "The only way I think it could be better is if I was on one of these assigned crews."

He congratulated the commercial crew astronauts: "Thanks for your efforts as you narrow your focus to a specific spacecraft and apply your test pilot and development skills on the specific vehicles that you're going to be flying in space."

NASA announced updated schedules for the first CST-100 Starliner and Crew Dragon test flights Thursday.

SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft is now expected to make its first unpiloted test flight in Earth orbit in November, followed by the crewed test flight in April 2019. The CST-100 Starliner's first demo mission is scheduled for early 2019, likely in January, followed four or five months later by the crewed demo flight.

NASA and Boeing have agreed to potentially use the CST-100 Starliner's crewed test flight, which originally was supposed to launch with a Boeing test pilot and a NASA astronaut, to carry a passenger who would stay aboard the space station for a long-duration months-long stay. If NASA chooses to exercise that option, the extra crew member — NASA astronaut Nicole Mann — could help ensure the station has a U.S. astronaut on-board after the space agency's agreement with the Russian government for Soyuz crew seats expires.


NASA astronaut Suni Williams inside a training version of SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft. Credit: SpaceX

The Russian space agency — Roscosmos — and NASA have agreed to extend the length of upcoming space station expeditions to more than six months. That will allow NASA's contract for astronauts seats on Russian Soyuz spacecraft to cover crew returns through at least January 2020, several months later than originally planned.

These measures are aimed at reducing the risk of a gap in U.S. crew access to the space station after NASA's contract with Roscosmos for Soyuz crew seats expires.

Once the U.S.-built commercial capsules are flying, all Crew Dragon and CST-100 missions will fly with a Russian cosmonaut and all Soyuz flights will launch with a NASA flight engineer, ensuring critical U.S. and Russian systems on the space station can always be operated by a proficient crew member.

The "in-kind" agreement between NASA and Roscosmos will not involve any exchange of funds.

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Chris G - NSF‏ @ChrisG_NSF 1 ч. назад

#NASA announces @Commercial_Crew who will fly #SpaceX & #Boeing test flights & both companies' 1st long-duration missions to @Space_Station, an announcement that drives home NASA's commitment to expansion of crew launch capability to commercial sector.

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NASA Announces Astronaut Crews for First Commercial Vehicle Flights
NASA

Опубликовано: 3 авг. 2018 г.

NASA announces the men and women who will be on board the first flights of the new spaceships built by Boeing and SpaceX when Americans are once again launched into space from the USA.

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https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-assigns-crews-to-first-test-flights-missions-on-commercial-spacecraft

Aug. 3, 2018
RELEASE 18-067

NASA Assigns Crews to First Test Flights, Missions on Commercial Spacecraft


NASA introduced to the world on Aug. 3, 2018, the first U.S. astronauts who will fly on American-made, commercial spacecraft to and fr om the International Space Station – an endeavor that will return astronaut launches to U.S. soil for the first time since the space shuttle's retirement in 2011. The agency assigned nine astronauts to crew the first test flight and mission of both Boeing's CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX's Crew Dragon. The astronauts are, fr om left to right: Sunita Williams, Josh Cassada, Eric Boe, Nicole Mann, Christopher Ferguson, Douglas Hurley, Robert Behnken, Michael Hopkins and Victor Glover.
Credits: NASA

NASA introduced to the world on Friday the first U.S. astronauts who will fly on American-made, commercial spacecraft to and from the International Space Station – an endeavor that will return astronaut launches to U.S. soil for the first time since the space shuttle's retirement in 2011.

"Today, our country's dreams of greater achievements in space are within our grasp," said NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine. "This accomplished group of American astronauts, flying on new spacecraft developed by our commercial partners Boeing and SpaceX, will launch a new era of human spaceflight. Today's announcement advances our great American vision and strengthens the nation's leadership in space."

The agency assigned nine astronauts to crew the first test flight and mission of both Boeing's CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX's Crew Dragon. NASA has worked closely with the companies throughout design, development and testing to ensure the systems meet NASA's safety and performance requirements. 

"The men and women we assign to these first flights are at the forefront of this exciting new time for human spaceflight," said Mark Geyer, director of NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. "It will be thrilling to see our astronauts lift off from American soil, and we can't wait to see them aboard the International Space Station." 

Starliner Test Flight Astronauts

Eric Boe was born in Miami and grew up in Atlanta. He came to NASA from the Air Force, wh ere he was a fighter pilot and test pilot and rose to the rank of colonel. He was sel ected as an astronaut in 2000 and piloted space shuttle Endeavour for the STS-126 mission and Discovery on its final flight, STS-133.

Christopher Ferguson is a native of Philadelphia. He is a retired Navy captain, who piloted space shuttle Atlantis for STS-115, and commanded shuttle Endeavour on STS-126 and Atlantis for the final flight of the Space Shuttle Program, STS-135. He retired from NASA in 2011 and has been an integral part of Boeing's CST-100 Starliner program.

Nicole Aunapu Mann is a California native and a lieutenant colonel in the Marine Corps. She is an F/A-18 test pilot with more than 2,500 flight hours in more than 25 aircraft. Mann was sel ected as an astronaut in 2013. This will be her first trip to space.

Boeing's Starliner will launch aboard a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

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Starliner First Mission Astronauts

Josh Cassada grew up in White Bear Lake, Minnesota. He is a Navy commander and test pilot with more than 3,500 flight hours in more than 40 aircraft. He was selected as an astronaut in 2013. This will be his first spaceflight.

Sunita Williams was born in Euclid, Ohio, but considers Needham, Massachusetts, her hometown. Williams came to NASA fr om the Navy, wh ere she was a test pilot and rose to the rank of captain before retiring. Since her selection as an astronaut in 1998, she has spent 322 days aboard the International Space Station for Expeditions 14/15 and Expeditions 32/33, commanded the space station and performed seven spacewalks.

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Additional crew members will be assigned by NASA's international partners at a later date.

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NASA's continuous presence on the space station for almost 18 years has enabled technology demonstrations and research in biology and biotechnology, Earth and space science, human health, physical sciences. This research has led to dramatic improvements in technology, infrastructure and medicine, and thousands of spinoff technologies that have improved quality of life here on Earth.

The new spaceflight capability provided by Boeing and SpaceX will allow NASA to maintain a crew of seven astronauts on the space station, thereby maximizing scientific research that leads to breakthroughs and also aids in understanding and mitigating the challenges of long-duration spaceflight.

NASA's Commercial Crew Program is facilitating the development of a U.S. commercial crew space transportation capability with the goal of achieving safe, reliable and cost-effective access to and fr om the International Space Station and low-Earth orbit. The public-private partnerships fostered by the program will stimulate growth in a robust commercial space industry and spark life-changing innovations for future generations.

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Названы астронавты, которые первыми полетят на кораблях Starliner и Dragon

Космос 3 августа, 18:52 дата обновления:3 августа, 19:10 UTC+3


Виктор Гловер, Майкл Хопкинс, Боб Брекен, Дуг Херли, Николь Амапу-Манн, Крис Фергюсон, Эрик Боу, Джон Кассада и Сунита Уильямс (слева направо)
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НЬЮ-ЙОРК, 3 августа. /ТАСС/. Имена астронавтов, которые первыми совершат полеты на космических кораблях Dragon и CTS-100 Starliner, названы в пятницу на пресс-конференции в Центре космических полетов имени Джонсона в Хьюстоне (штат Техас). Трансляция шла на сайте национального управления по аэронавтике и исследованиям космического пространства (NASA).

Как сообщил директор NASA Джим Брайденстайн, создаваемый корпорацией Boeing корабль Starliner будут пилотировать Эрик Боу и Крис Фергюсон, ранее уже совершавшие полеты на кораблях Space Shuttle, а также Николь Амапу-Манн, для которой предстоящий полет будет первым. ...

Первый регулярный полет к МКС на корабле Starliner совершат Джон Кассада и Сунита Уильямс, а на Dragon - Майкл Хопкинс и Виктор Гловер.

"Впервые с 2011 года американские астронавты совершат полеты на американских космических кораблях, запущенных с территории США", - подчеркнул директор NASA. До сих пор американские астронавты совершали полеты на Международную космическую станцию на борту российских космических кораблей.
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Первый непилотируемый полет космического корабля Starliner, как ожидается, состоится не ранее конца нынешнего или начала будущего года в связи с проблемами, выявленными в ходе испытаний двигателей для аварийного прекращения полета. Как сообщил в минувший четверг интернет-портал Space.com со ссылкой на высказывания вице-президнта компании Boeing Джона Малхолланда, пилотируемый полет может состояться в середине 2019 года.

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NASA представило астронавтов, которые первыми совершат полет на Starliner

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ВАШИНГТОН, 3 авг – РИА Новости. Девять астронавтов — семь мужчин и две женщины — войдут в число первых экипажей строящихся американских пилотируемых кораблей CTC–100 Starliner и Crew Dragon.

Глава НАСА Джим Брайденстайн представил астронавтов на торжественной церемонии, которая прошла в космическом центре имени Джонсона в Техасе.

"Впервые с 2011 года мы на грани того, чтобы запустить американского астронавта на американском корабле с американской земли", — сказал глава космического ведомства США.

В первый тестовый полет на корабле CTC–100 Starliner отправятся ветераны комических полетов Эрик Боу, Крис Фергюсон, а также 41-летняя Николь Анапу Мэнн, для которой это будет первым полетом в космос.
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После того, как оба корабля пройдут сертификацию для доставки экипажей на МКС. В пилотируемые полеты на МКС на корабле CTC–100 Starliner отправятся ветеран полетов 52-летняя Сани Уильямс, а также дебютанты космических полетов Джон Кассада...
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Commercial Crew Program Crew Assignment Announcement - August 3, 2018

NASA Video

Опубликовано: 3 авг. 2018 г.

NASA introduced to the world on Friday the first U.S. astronauts who will fly on American-made, commercial spacecraft to and from the International Space Station – an endeavor that will return astronaut launches to U.S. soil for the first time since the space shuttle's retirement in 2011.

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Christopher Ferguson‏Подлинная учетная запись @Astro_Ferg 1 ч. назад

Well done to our Huntington Beach, CA structural testing team. This is how we test the separation of the crew and service module on Earth. This normally happens just after the re-entry burn....about an hour before landing. The safety straps "catch" the SM preventing damage.


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Прим. Могу ошибаться, тогда это испытания Ориона...

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Live Interviews with Starliner and Crew Dragon Astronauts 8.3.18 1

NASA Johnson

Опубликовано: 5 авг. 2018 г.

Commercial Crew Program Astronauts Robert Behnken, Doug Hurley, Eric Boe, Chris Ferguson, and Nicole Aunapu Mann conduct a series of interviews with media on NASA-TV. (Part 1)

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NASA Johnson

Опубликовано: 4 авг. 2018 г.

Commercial Crew Program Astronauts Robert Behnken, Doug Hurley, Eric Boe, Chris Ferguson, and Nicole Aunapu Mann conduct a series of interviews with media on NASA-TV. (Part 2)

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ULA‏Подлинная учетная запись @ulalaunch 10 мин. назад

Honored to host the @Commercial_Crew astronauts at the launch pad today.



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Headed to the #Starliner Crew Access Tower @Commercial_Crew

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Emre Kelly‏Подлинная учетная запись @EmreKelly 10 ч. назад

Chatting with @BoeingSpace's Starliner astronauts Chris Ferguson, Eric Boe and Nicole Mann at KSC's C3PF. As you would expect, they're excited to be here and interact with Starliners in this former shuttle facility.

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Emre Kelly‏Подлинная учетная запись @EmreKelly 10 ч. назад

Astronauts Suni Williams and Josh Cassada stand in front of Starliner III, which will eventually take them to @Space_Station after the uncrewed demo flight. These two are genuinely super cool. – C3PF (ommercial Crew & Cargo Processing Facility)

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Commercial Crew: Meet the Flight Test Crews

NASAKennedy

Опубликовано: 13 авг. 2018 г.

On Aug. 3, 2018, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced to the world the first astronauts to fly commercial spacecraft from Boeing and SpaceX, as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program. Meet the astronauts who will be the first to launch from American soil since 2011.

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Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight 2 ч. назад

FEATURE ARTICLE:
Boeing's Ferguson on Starliner - no touch screens, but far simpler than Shuttle -

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2018/08/boeing-starliner-crew-spacecraft/ ...

- By Chris Gebhardt (@ChrisG_NSF)

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