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Boeing Shows Off First Commercial Spacecraft

Posted by samzenpus on from the lost-luggage-in-space dept.

coondoggie writes "Boeing today released the first public glimpse of the commercial spacecraft it is working on under an $18 million contract with NASA. Boeing's Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 can hold seven crew and will be bigger than Apollo but smaller than NASA's Orion, and be able to launch on a variety of different rockets, including Atlas, Delta and Falcon.The company envisions the spacecraft supporting the International Space Station and future Bigelow Aerospace Orbital Space Complex systems. Bigelow is building what it calls 'expandable habitats,' that which are inflatable spacecraft would act as large, less costly space stations."

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  1. the bus stop by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    what is it with black people and the bus stop? anything you see a bus stop, there is always a black person there.

    i would bet money that if you put a bus stop in the middle of sibera, hundreds of miles from anyone and left it for a few hours, when you return they would be black people in it. stereotypical black people too. there will be one old man holding a bicycle tire on the rim, muttering to himself. there will be a fat black girl on hell cellphone talking too loud and shaking her finger while doing the "mmmhmm" thing. lastly there will be a 20-something thug-life wanna-be with bloodshot eyes.

    black people and the bus stop, it's a mystery.

  2. Total BS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    This has absolutely nothing to do with Apple.

  3. Commercial? by Tokolosh · · Score: 0, Troll

    Giant aerospace company designs hardware for NASA - how is this news? How is this suddenly "commercial"?

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