Boeing today unveiled a full scale mock-up of the interior of its CST-100 manned capsule.
The competition heats up: Boeing today unveiled a full scale mock-up of the interior of its CST-100 manned capsule.
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The competition heats up: Boeing today unveiled a full scale mock-up of the interior of its CST-100 manned capsule.
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
It’s cool they threw Bigelow a bone. Probably a good story there.
The blue mood lighting is cute.
I can see they found a way to save a few million on engineering and manufacturing.
That high tech fire suppression system looks just like the ones we have at work all over the building. At least we know it will work and came in under budget.
Sorry I forgot one thing.
They will probably charge NASA 10 million for the bracket to hold the fire extinguisher to the wall.
Oh well that budgets gone too.
No, they will likely not charge NASA 10 million for that bracket. For the CST-100, Boeing is not on a cost-plus contract. It is fixed price, and NASA is not even paying the full cost. Boeing has to make an investment as well. This is why SpaceX and Orbital Sciences were able to build and launch Dragon and Antares so cheaply.
The real question about Boeing here is whether that corporation, used to cost-plus contracts, will be willing to make the investment and take the risk. I have gotten mixed signals from them, suggesting they may not stick it out.