NASA Commercial Crew Transportation Capability Contract
NASA Commercial Crew Transportation Capability Contract CCTCAP
“NASA Kennedy Space Center (KSC) plans to issue a Request for Proposal (RFP) to compete requirements for Commercial Crew Transportation Capability (CCtCap) Phase 2 of the Commercial Crew Program. The CCtCap contract is the second phase of a two-phased procurement strategy to develop a U.S. commercial crew space transportation capability to achieve safe, reliable and cost effective access to and from the International Space Station (ISS) with a goal of no later than 2017.”
I cant let go all of our children go so;
SpaceX
$300 Million
Sierra Nevada
$200 Million
SpaceX will get there first and garner all of the commercial missions until Sierra nevada catches up later
Boeing
$40 Million
Blue Origin
$40 Million
these two will be guaranteed a nasa funded crewed test flight as well as one commercial crew flight each if someday they bring their systems to flight readiness
after the ISS is gone we should build all commercial space stations even if they may be temporary ones IE remember Gemini Agena?
well Dragon + Cygnis might make for a frugal persons space station in the late 2020’s
I wonder how many Cygnises will be burned up before the late 2020???
A guess…………..
8 flights through 2016 ( three years) ( contracted) $ 1.9 Billion
ISS to 2019 (three years) $2.3 Billion
8 more?
ISS through 2022 $2.5 Billion
8 more?
ISS through 2025 $2.7 billion
8 more?
32 flights through 2025 something less than $8 billion revenue
SpaceX Cygnus docking test mission outside ISS exclusion zone priceless!
SpaceX Dragon and Cygnus UCM to the Hubble
SpaceX Dragon Cygnus to L2 using Falcon heavy the poor persons gateway
The RFP Response Date is Nov 08, 2013, but how long will it be before NASA knows if it’s going to get the money, and how much, for Phase 2? Allocations for the commercial programs seem to change more often than some people change their socks.
Maybe this will tell us how much per seat.