How Boeing’s Commercial CST-100 Starliner Spacecraft Works [bestandroiddoubledinheadunit950.blogspot.com]

How Boeing’s Commercial CST-100 Starliner Spacecraft Works [bestandroiddoubledinheadunit950.blogspot.com]

The Boeing CST-100 Starliner is one of two commercial spacecraft types that NASA plans to use for International Space Station flights. (The other spacecraft is SpaceX’s Dragon.) NASA currently uses Russian Soyuz spacecraft to ferry its astronauts into space, an arrangement that has persisted since the end of the space shuttle program in 2011.

Much of the development money for the Starliner came through various phases of NASA’s commercial crew program, which aims to launch astronauts again from American soil. Boeing received $4.2 billion under the latest phase of the program — Commercial Crew Transportation Capability (CCtCap) — in September 2014. SpaceX got $2.6 billion at the same time.

Boeing has been a part of the United States space program since the very beginning, starting with developing the Mercury spacecraft in the early 1960s. Its current contributions to human spaceflight (besides Starliner) include the next-generation Space Launch System rocket to carry astronauts out of low Earth orbit, and serving as the prime integrator for the International Space Station.

Here’s a brief overview of how the Starliner works.

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