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Want to find out which American company is winning the race to ferry astronauts to the ISS? Go here.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Ah… as to milestone completion status:
Boeing: 17 of 20; 85%
SpaceX: 13 of 17; 76%
Sierra Nevada: 8 of 13. 62%
Why do they have different numbers of milestones to complete?
Ah… as to milestone completion status:
Boeing: 17 of 20; 85%
SpaceX: 13 of 17; 76%
Sierra Nevada: 8 of 13. 62%
Why do they have different numbers of milestones to complete for the contract?
Certainly makes Boeing look way ahead.
I think Boeing is only building a capsule/service module, while SpaceX is developing an entire launch system. Not sure what Boeing intends to use for a booster.
Either a Delta or an Atlas. Wikipedia says any launcher but I don’t recall what they intend to test it on.
Ya, considering that the milestones for each company are not based on common criteria but rather individual contract obligations, it seems an almost worthless metric.
They were going to use the Atlas-V, same as the Dream Chaser.
The race is only won when someone goes to the station and comes back safe.
First team to the goal wins all others are just losers. Second place is just the first loser.
In the corporate world the only real winner is the guy who can do it for the cheapest cost in the shortest amount of time.
Which might be any of them in the long run.
NASA used to be able to send a bunch of people up at once in the shuttle, but it cost to much and took to long.