Get Ready to Launch! with NASA's Commercial Crew

Get ready to LAUNCH! with NASA’s Commercial Crew

What is What are they Where are they Commercial Crew? launching? going?

Boeing SpaceX CST-100 Starliner Crew Dragon National Aeronautics and Space Administration

www.nasa.gov SP-2019-04-575-KSC Boeing Crew Flight Test SpaceX Demo 2 Nicole Aunapu Mann A NEW SPACE AGE Bob Behnken NASA Astronaut NASA’s Commercial Crew Program spacecraft and rockets will carry up to four astronauts NASA Astronaut Marine Corps Air Force Colonel and about 220 pounds of cargo to and from the International Space Station. Commercial Lieutenant Colonel crew will resume human spaceflight launches from the United States and provide the nation Flew aboard space shuttle Endeavour twice as a Mission Selected as an Astronaut in 2013, with two unique spacecraft, two human-rated rockets and the necessary ground support this is Nicole’s first spaceflight. Specialist, first on STS-123 and systems. NASA and our commercial partners, Boeing and SpaceX, are working together to then on STS-130. open access to low-Earth orbit. Chris Ferguson Boeing Astronaut BUILDING A NEW AMERICAN CAPABILITY Doug Hurley Navy Captain (retired) NASA’s Commercial Crew Program has been redefining space system development for NASA Astronaut Marine Corps Colonel Piloted space shuttle Atlantis low-Earth orbit by forming strong public-private partnerships with the aerospace industry to for STS-115, and commanded encourage innovation while maintaining NASA’s high safety standards and leveraging NASA’s (retired) shuttle Endeavour on STS-126 Piloted space shuttle Endeavor and Atlantis on STS-135, the 50 plus years of spaceflight experience. Commercial crew partners with industry to advance for STS-127 and Atlantis for final flight of the Space Shuttle a diverse economic market in space including Blue Origin with spacecraft, engines and STS-135, the final space shuttle Program. systems, and Sierra Nevada Corporation with the Dream Chaser spacecraft. NASA selected mission. Mike Fincke the Dream Chaser’s cargo version to ferry supplies, equipment and experiments to and from NASA Astronaut the orbiting laboratory under the Commercial Resupply Services-2 contract. Both Sierra Air Force Colonel (retired) SpaceX’s First Operational Mission Nevada Corporation and Blue Origin are also working toward the goal of flying people to and Aboard shuttle Endeavour on from low-Earth orbit. Mike Hopkins STS-134, Fincke served as NASA Astronaut Mission Specialist 1 on the flight deck and as a spacewalker and Air Force Colonel robotic arm operator. PARALLEL PATH FOR EXPLORATION NASA’s work to turn over low-Earth orbit astronaut transportation to commercial companies, Spent 166 days on the International Space Station like Boeing and SpaceX, allows the agency to use other resources to develop the Orion for Expeditions 37/38. Boeing’s First Operational Mission spacecraft and Space Launch System rocket for missions into deep space. Both destinations— Suni Williams the International Space Station and deep space—are vital in the nation’s space exploration efforts, and one cannot be successful without the other. NASA Astronaut Victor Glover Navy Captain (retired) NASA Astronaut FLIGHT TEST AND FIRST MISSION CREWS Spent 322 days in space on Navy Commander two space station missions, NASA selected eight of its astronauts in August 2018 to crew the first flights of Boeing’s Expeditions 14/15 and Expedi- Starliner and SpaceX’s Crew Dragon. In addition, Boeing introduced its astronaut for the Selected as an Astronaut tions 32/33. Commander of the in 2013, this is Victor’s International Space Station on company’s Crew Flight Test, for a total of nine crew members. These brave men and women first spaceflight. Expedition 33. will be the first to fly to space on American-made systems since the space shuttle’s retirement. Josh Cassada NASA Astronaut Navy Commander Stay connected with NASA’s Commercial Crew Program: Selected as an Astronaut in 2013, this is Josh’s first spaceflight. www.twitter.com/commercial_crew www.nasa.gov/commercialcrew

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What is Commercial Crew?

NASA is working with two companies, Boeing and SpaceX, to return human spaceflight to U.S. soil.

Did you know the space shuttle completed its final launch to the space station in 2011? What are they launching?

Boeing CST-100 Starliner

SpaceX Crew Dragon Where are they going?

Both the Starliner and the Crew Dragon will carry astronauts to the International Space Station to conduct scientific research.

Did you know there has been continuous human presence on the International Space Station since November 2, 2000?