Boeing, which has received more than $ 100 million in funding from NASA, working on the ship Crew S

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Since the program was removed, members of NASA have been traveling on the Russian Soyuz spacecraft, bishop mcdevitt wyncote at a cost of 70 million per seat, according to a NASA spokesman. The agency usually buy six seats per year.
NASA's partnership with companies is part of the Commercial Crew Program. The program aims to help private companies to develop spaceships to carry astronauts to low Earth orbit by 2017 the agency has invested over 1,400 million dollars in contracts and special agreements with private companies to phase two of the program.
The goal, according to the NASA website, is "to establish secure, reliable and cost-efficient access to space," Once the new transport system is operating, NASA says it will use private aircraft to "comply with the rotation of Personal Space and returns bishop mcdevitt wyncote an emergency. "
Boeing, which has received more than $ 100 million in funding from NASA, working on the ship Crew Space Transportation 100 as part of the program. The CST-100 will carry up to seven passengers or a combination of human and cargo and can reach the International Space Station.
Meanwhile, the SpaceX Dragon became the first commercial aircraft to carry cargo to the space station in 2012 The Dragon currently only carries cargo, but SpaceX says it can carry human too.
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