Ccdev2 Commercial Crew Space Launch Firms Making Nasa Measured Milestones Progress

Ccdev2 Commercial Crew Space Launch Firms Making Nasa Measured Milestones Progress
NASA's COMMERCIAL SPACE PARTNERS are making significant progress in maturing designs and development of their COMMERCIAL CREW TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS under CCDEV2 evidenced by the graph above [PDF NASA DETAILS]. During the past two months, eight milestones were completed by SIERRA NEVADA, SPACEX, BOEING, UNITED LAUNCH ALLIANCE, ALLIANT TECHSYSTEMS, INC., and EXCALIBUR ALMAZ, INC. "The milestones are really the mile markers of each one of these companies," SCOTT THURSTON, CHIEF OF THE COMMERCIAL CREW PROGRAM (CCP) PARTNER INTEGRATION OFFICE said recently. "It's based on each company's development plan, not what the government wants, so each company is a little bit different." The NASA Commercial Crew effort is very much like a venture capitalist endeavor because NASA is investing in systems and laying out expectations, but not dictating how companies make their systems work.The total number of completed milestones under CCDev2 is now 34 of the 62 plotted by NASA. Each of the milestone accomplishments help Americans in ending the human spaceflight "GAP" created last year with the retirement of the space shuttle fleet and the current dependence on the Soyuz for American human spaceflight.

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