Commercial Crew Development

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Il Commercial Crew Development (CCDev) è un programma di sviluppo di tecnologie spaziali, con multiple fasi, finanziato dal governo statunitense e gestito dalla NASA. Lo scopo del programma è di incentivare lo sviluppo di veicoli con equipaggio di aziende private lanciati in orbita terrestre bassa. Il programma è gestito dal Commercial Crew and Cargo Program Office (C3PO).[1]

Commercial Crew Program logo
Commercial Crew Program logo
First group of nine astronauts selected for the NASA Commercial Crew Development program and the two selected spacecraft, the Boeing CST-100 Starliner (left) and SpaceX Crew Dragon

Nel 2010, in the first phase of the program, NASA provided $50 million combined to five American companies; the money was intended for research and development into private-sector human spaceflight concepts and technologies. NASA solicited a second set of CCdev proposals for technology development projects lasting for a maximum of 14 months in October of that year.[2] In April 2011, NASA announced they would award up to nearly $270 million to four companies as they met their CCDev 2 objectives.

NASA awarded Space Act Agreements for the third phase, named CCiCap, in August 2012; this would last until 2014.[3] CCiCap is followed by CCtCap with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 15 contracts, which formed the fourth and final phase of the program. Contracts were awarded to SpaceX and Boeing in September 2014.[4] Test flights of both spacecraft are scheduled for 2019.[5] SpaceX and Boeing have contracts with NASA to each supply six flights to ISS between 2019 and 2024.[6] The first group of astronauts assigned to fly on the two selected spacecraft were announced on August 3, 2018.[7]

Note

  1. ^ Commercial Crew & Cargo Program Office. NASA website, June 3, 2014, accessed December 16, 2015.
  2. ^ NASA Seeks More Proposals On Commercial Crew Development, in press release 10-277, NASA, October 25, 2010.
  3. ^ Errore nelle note: Errore nell'uso del marcatore <ref>: non è stato indicato alcun testo per il marcatore nasa20120803
  4. ^ Errore nelle note: Errore nell'uso del marcatore <ref>: non è stato indicato alcun testo per il marcatore CCtCapBlogAnnounce
  5. ^ http://spacenews.com/spacex-delays-commercial-crew-test-flights-to-latter-half-of-2018/
  6. ^ https://www.govconwire.com/2017/01/boeing-spacex-secure-additional-crewed-missions-under-nasas-commercial-space-transport-program/
  7. ^ NASA Assigns Crews to First Test Flights, Missions on Commercial Spacecraft, su nasa.gov, NASA, August 3, 2018.