transportation system to low Earth orbit.
Through
innovative partnerships with commercial rocket and spacecraft developers, NASA
is making great strides to advance America's next human space transportation
systems.
In 2010, President Barack Obama set the agency on a course to provide new
transportation into space for its astronauts, while expanding human presence
beyond low Earth orbit and enabling new missions of exploration across the
solar system.
NASA's Commercial Crew Program (CCP) was formed to facilitate the development
of a U.S. commercial crew space transportation capability with the goal of
achieving safe, reliable and cost-effective access to and from the
International Space Station and low Earth orbit.
With support from CCP, U.S. industry is building new commercially developed
spaceflight capabilities and enabling new jobs, all of which could ultimately
lead to the availability of commercial human spaceflight services for
government and commercial customers.
NASA expects to bridge the American spaceflight gap left by the retirement of
the Space Shuttle Program and begin buying seats on U.S. commercial space
systems near the middle of the decade.
Before NASA would begin using a commercially developed system to transport its
astronauts to and from the Space Station, the system must be certified as
meeting NASA’s safety requirements throughout an entire mission cycle.
Certification of commercial systems for NASA transportation missions will be
pursued in a future, separate phase under the CCP.
Keywords – NASA’s Commercial Crew Program for future
U.S Human Spaceflight, future phase under the CCP, enabling new missions of
exploration across the solar system.
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