Through its Space Exploration division,Boeing is developing a multiple use space capsule,the Boeing Crew Space Transportation-100.Boeing plans to use the CST-100 to transport crews to the International Space Station and future commercial Low Earth Orbit platforms.
The capsule can carry up to seven people.It can fly on multiple launch vehicles,and is expected to be operational by 2015.
In cooperation with Space Adventures,a Vienna,Virginia firm which has marketed spare seats on the Russian Soyuz spacecraft,Boeing plans to offer safe,affordable transportation to commercial spaceflight customers in the excess seating capacity of the CST-100.
These plans are contingent upon congrssional approval of funds for commercial space flight and Boeing's winning a NASA contract for astronaut transportation.Congress and the Obama administration are still wrangling over the future of NASA's manned spaceflight program.The space shuttle is to be retired next year.
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