As lawmakers weigh the pros and cons of turning over US manned spaceflight to contractors, one commercial hopeful vowed Thursday that her firm could fly US astronauts to the orbiting space station for less than a trip on the Russian Soyuz spacecraft. Gwynne Shotwell, president of Space X, said she could guarantee her company would be able to provide at least three flights to the International Space Station (ISS) for less than 50 million dollars a seat. A ride on the Soyuz currently costs the US space agency NASA 51 million dollars per astronaut, and that price is likely to rise when current agreements expire, reports The Earth Times.
The first SpaceX Falcon 9 booster is set for launch from Cape Canaveral Complex 40 for April 12, 2010 - only 72 hours prior to the visit of President Barack Obama at the Kennedy Space Center for the presidential space conference.
United Launch Alliance — a jointly-owned partnership of defense giants Boeing and Lockheed Martin — offered his “full support” to the Obama Administration NASA FY 2011 budget proposal that cancels the Constellation program and engages the American commercial space launch sector during a U.S. Senate Commerce subcommittee hearing on the future of American spaceflight, according to a report in The Orlando Sentinel.
United Launch Alliance will boost at Atlas V to space on April 19, 2010 in the wake of the presidential visit to the Kennedy Space Center with the secretive yet unmanned X39B mini-space shuttle.
The first SpaceX Falcon 9 booster is set for launch from Cape Canaveral Complex 40 for April 12, 2010 - only 72 hours prior to the visit of President Barack Obama at the Kennedy Space Center for the presidential space conference.
United Launch Alliance — a jointly-owned partnership of defense giants Boeing and Lockheed Martin — offered his “full support” to the Obama Administration NASA FY 2011 budget proposal that cancels the Constellation program and engages the American commercial space launch sector during a U.S. Senate Commerce subcommittee hearing on the future of American spaceflight, according to a report in The Orlando Sentinel.
United Launch Alliance will boost at Atlas V to space on April 19, 2010 in the wake of the presidential visit to the Kennedy Space Center with the secretive yet unmanned X39B mini-space shuttle.
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