Sentences with phrase «build commercial spacecraft»

The Senate bill, by contrast, provides $ 1.6 billion over 3 years to help industry build commercial spacecraft that would help ferry astronauts into space.

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SpaceX and Boeing are both building spacecraft for NASA's commercial crew program, with the project goal being to get American astronauts on American rockets back into space.

There are a number of companies trying to build commercial suborbital spacecraft, but the current leader is Virgin Galactic, which will use a vehicle built by Burt Rutan, the designer of the Ansari X Prize — winning SpaceShipOne, the only private manned spacecraft thus far to have left the atmosphere.

The popularity of the burgeoning commercial space travel industry may come down to economics: Companies will have to attract investors and build spacecraft that can easily, inexpensively and repeatedly be launched to and return from suborbital altitude.

The House bill would have NASA develop its own spacecraft to fly U.S. astronauts to low — Earth orbit by 2015, in contrast to the Administration's plan to encourage commercial space companies to build such vehicles.

The Dragon capsule, built by dot - com magnate Elon Musk's company SpaceX, is the first commercial spacecraft to visit the International Space Station.

NASA said the current commercial crew schedule has about six months of margin built in to begin regular, post-certification crew rotation missions to the ISS before the final contracted flight on the Russian Soyuz spacecraft end in the fall of 2019.