NASA Commercial Crew Partner Boeing Meets Software Milestone

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May 24, 2012

Candrea Thomas
Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
321-867-2468
candrea.k.thomas@nasa.gov

Trent J. Perrotto
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-0321
trent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov

Susan Wells 
The Boeing Co. 
321-264-8580
susan.h.wells@boeing.com

RELEASE: 12-170

NASA COMMERCIAL CREW PARTNER BOEING MEETS SOFTWARE MILESTONE

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The Boeing Company has successfully completed 
a new milestone in the development of software that will operate its 
Crew Space Transportation (CST) spacecraft. The company is one of 
NASA's partners developing commercial crew transportation 
capabilities to ferry U.S. astronauts to and from low Earth orbit and 
the International Space Station.

With the Preliminary Design Review (PDR) of its software on May 18, 
the company now has completed more than 40 milestones under 
partnerships supporting NASA's Commercial Crew Program (CCP).

"When it comes to designing a spacecraft safe enough to transport 
humans, software is as important as the hardware," said Ed Mango, CCP 
manager. "Boeing has made an excellent effort to take safety into 
consideration while developing critical software components of its 
spacecraft."

Boeing's CST-100 is designed to be a reusable, capsule-shaped 
spacecraft, capable of transporting up to seven people or a 
combination of people and cargo. It is compatible with a variety of 
expendable launch vehicles. Boeing has selected United Launch 
Alliance's Atlas V rocket for initial CST-100 test flights.

Software is essential to all operational aspects of the spacecraft, 
including launch, orbital maneuvering, docking with and separating 
from the space station, re-entry and landing.

The testing is part of a NASA-funded Space Act Agreement under the 
second round of the agency's commercial crew development (CCDev2) 
activities, which could eventually lead toward human spaceflight 
certification of the CST-100.

The Boeing team is on schedule to complete its remaining CCDev2 
milestones in the next few months, including an orbital 
maneuvering/attitude control engine hot fire test that will provide 
additional data on significant elements of the spacecraft design.

All of NASA's industry partners, including Boeing, continue to meet 
their established milestones in developing commercial crew 
transportation capabilities.

For more information about NASA's Commercial Crew Program, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/commercialcrew 

	
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