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NASA and Boeing Announce Space Capsule Program at KSC

Boeing Concept Drawing of New Capsule
Boeing Concept Drawing of New Capsule

October 31, 2011 | WMFE - Boeing announced Monday that it will headquarter its commercial space capsule program at the Kennedy Space Center. It will use a former space shuttle hanger to build and test a new capsule design. 90.7s Mark Simpson reports.

 

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Boeing says 550 jobs will be created at the Kennedy Space Center. 

Speaking at Kennedy,Boeing Commercial Crew manager John Mulholland says the new crew capsule called CST-100 will be created in one of the shuttle’s former processing facilities, "We plan to manufacture and test Boeing’s CST 100 in this facility OPF 3 and we will launch from right here on Florida’s space coast."

 Concerns over American access to the International Space Station were raised in late August this year when an unmanned Russian Soyuz cargo rocket was destroyed during an attempt to resupply the orbiting observatory.

 Boeing says it expects the commercial crew vehicle to be ready by 2015. 

 

 

 

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