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Boeing CST-100 Spacecraft To Provide Commercial Crew Transportation Services

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by Staff Writers
Farnborough, UK (SPX) Jul 20, 2010
Boeing released artist's renderings of its Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 spacecraft during a media briefing with Bigelow Aerospace at the Farnborough Airshow.

Boeing is maturing the design of its CST-100 spacecraft under an $18 million Commercial Crew Development (CCDev) Space Act Agreement with NASA.

The CST-100 can carry a crew of seven and is designed to support the International Space Station and the Bigelow Aerospace Orbital Space Complex (as shown in image MTF10-0006-01).

The CST-100 will be bigger than Apollo but smaller than Orion, and be able to launch on a variety of different rockets, including Atlas, Delta and Falcon.

It will use a simple systems architecture and existing, proven components.

The "100" in CST-100 refers to the 100 kilometers from the ground to low Earth orbit.



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