Posted on 07/09/2015 12:08:25 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The commercial crew astronauts are: Air Force Col. Robert Behnken, until recently head of the astronaut office; Air Force Col. Eric Boe, part of shuttle Discovery's last crew; retired Marine Col. Douglas Hurley, pilot of the final shuttle crew; and Navy Capt. Sunita Williams, a two-time resident of the International Space Station.
"These distinguished, veteran astronauts are blazing a new trail, a trail that will one day land them in the history books and Americans on the surface of Mars," Bolden said on his blog.
SpaceX and Boeing are aiming for test flights to the space station by 2017. It will be the first launch of astronauts from Cape Canaveral, Florida, since the space shuttles retired in 2011.
In the meantime, NASA has been paying Russia tens of millions of dollars per ride on Soyuz spacecraft to ferry astronauts; the latest tab is $76 million.
Bolden noted that the average cost on an American-owned spacecraft will be $58 million per astronaut, and each
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They gonna use broomsticks? catapults?
Prayer rugs...
What? No 0bama-trained ISIS Pilots available? *SMIRK*
Who is paying for this?
Very Interesting
After the last couple of Space X flights...I might consider exposing myself to measles.
We now select our astronauts the same way we select our Supreme Court justices and who to put on our currency.
These four appear to be melanin deficient. What gives?
All O-6’s must be a drone spacecraft, could not resist.
I know, I feel a major Micro-Aggression episode coming upon me.
Flying carpet.
Delivering Burkas?
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