Boeing will fly test space Taxi

Boeing said it will use the Kennedy Space Center in Florida (which used to be a space shuttle) to design and build a "space taxi".

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According to Boeing , 'space taxi' will be a tool to replace space shuttle and transport cargo into space.

Model of space taxi of Boeing

Susan Wells, owner of Boeing's space exploration research project, said the space taxi they studied was named CST － 100; Currently Boeing has signed an agreement with the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to use the 3rd shuttle space for Kennedy Space Center to conduct research on assembly and testing CST-100. Locations and locations Support will soon be transferred to Boeing.

Susan Wells said that CST － 100 could bring seven people to orbit through Hercules 5 rocket, according to the 2015 plan, Boeing will conduct test flight and by the end of 2016. Astronauts American cylinders will sit Taxi going to space orbit station. Mr. John Mulholland Drive Boeing vice president said CST － 100 will become a reliable, safe, cheap transport service for American astronauts to go to the space station in the space and the above stations. Other close orbits.

Currently including Boeing, the US aerospace agency NASA is funding four other companies to develop new spacecraft.

NASA hopes that some of the companies that NASA sponsors to research and develop and test immediately fly new space taxis, during the next 3-5 years it will be the vehicle to take the task of bringing astronauts up. work space, avoid having to rely on Russian aerospace agencies. Government President Obama has asked the US space agency in this fiscal year to provide about 850 million dollars to fund the Space Taxi project.