Private Space Vehicles Begin to Fly, Including the SpaceShipTwo, but 2014 Crash May Slow Development

SpaceX hopes to send two tourists around the moon and back in the relatively near future; but bold visions for the future are standard for SpaceX founder Elon Musk, who also founded Tesla Motors. Meanwhile, Boeing’s CST-100 “Starliner” is intended to fly astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS). The CST-100 capsule is propelled by a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket. The company launched the unmanned capsule in December 2019, but it suffered an in-flight glitch that stranded it in an unplanned orbit. The capsule was brought down safely, and the company hoped to attempt another flight in 2021. Unfortunately, the company found problems with the capsule’s propulsion system valves in August 2021, which delayed further launches. America has been relying on Russian spacecraft to get to the ISS for years, since the end of the Space Shuttle program at NASA.

Sierra Nevada Corp. (www.sncorp.com) is working on a winged vehicle called the Dream Chaser that will also fly on an Atlas 5 rocket. The craft would launch vertically, but land horizontally on conventional runways, much like the Space Shuttle. NASA selected the Dream Chaser to provide cargo delivery, return and disposal service for the ISS, with a minimum of six missions between 2019 and 2024.

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