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Touting Commercial Crew Spaceflight on the Space Coast

By Marc Boucher
NASA Watch
June 15, 2013
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The three commercial space companies working with NASA’s Commercial Crew Program (CCP) may have very different spacecraft and rocket designs, but they all agreed on the need for the United States to have its own domestic capability to launch astronauts.
‘Today, there are nine humans on orbit,’ said Ed Mango, CCP’s program manager, at a National Space Club meeting June 11 in Cape Canaveral, Florida ‘All of those folks got there on a vehicle that did not have a U.S. flag on it. We, and the people in this room, and the people at this table, need to fix that.’

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One response to “Touting Commercial Crew Spaceflight on the Space Coast”

  1. Steve Whitfield says:
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    This must be history week at the National Space Club. This article and the presentation it describes could have been done two years ago, or more. Why repeat old news?

    This would not have happened at a NASA-sponsored hosted, since talking to the public is no longer funded at NASA and therefore not allowed.
    As a side note, Mango quotes $71 million dollars a seat. That’s a big jump from the $20 million they charged Dennis Tito for a two-way trip, and a stay on the ISS, only a dozen years ago — a 355% increase! But I think we can safely assume that once US companies start doing these flights the cost per seat will go down over time, not up.