Boeing CST-100 commercial spaceship will launch US astronaut crews from Florida to the International Space Station. Credit: Boeing Declaring that the future survival of the International Space Station (ISS) was “jeopardized,” NASA issued a statement late Thursday, Oct. 9, ordering Boeing and SpaceX to restart work to develop commercial crew vehicles under the Commercial Crew Transportation Capability (CCtCap) contracts awarded to each firm on Sept. 16. NASA took this action despite a protest filed with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) by the losing commercial crew bidder, Sierra Nevada Corporation. On Sept. 26, NASA had directed Boeing and SpaceX to “suspend performance of the contracts” in response to the GAO protest filed by Sierra Nevada Corporation NASA told Boeing and SpaceX to immediately resume work on their astronaut space taxis under “statutory authority available to NASA.” bit.ly/1B6MKKt
Posted on: Thu, 25 Dec 2014 01:11:00 +0000
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