Boeing reveals prototype spacecraft for human transport
Boeing has revealed its CST-100 capsule, the spacecraft it hopes will taxi NASA astronauts back and forth from the International Space Station come mid-2017.
The aviation giants revealed their prototype capsule at their Kennedy Space Center facilities this week, just a couple weeks after Elon Musk's SpaceX revealed its ISS shuttle, Dragon V2.In 2012, NASA awarded $1.1 billion in seed funding to Boeing, SpaceX, and Sierra Nevada Corporation to begin developing capsules that could carry American astronauts to the ISS. Since NASA ended the shuttle program, U.S. astronauts have had to rely on the Russians to ferry them back and forth.Sierra Nevada Corporation's prototype, the Dream Chaser, finished its wind tunnel testing last month.
