Sentences with phrase «part of a crew carrying»
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Other spaceflight companies, including Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Sierra Nevada and Jeff Bezos» Blue Origin, are variously developing new spacecraft designed to carry humans into orbital space as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program (CCP).
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The Jones Act requires, in relevant part, that goods shipped between U.S. ports be carried on ships built and flagged in the U.S. and that at least 75 % of each such ship's crew be U.S. citizens.
The crew - carrying Dragon spacecraft will operate, in large part, autonomously, so the passengers would have to train for emergency procedures but would not be in charge of piloting the spacecraft, Musk said.
However, the design for Orion was carried forward as the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (Orion MPCV) as part of NASA's new plans to explore beyond low Earth orbit and into deep space.