Author Topic: Commercial Crew Assignments Announcement - Aug 3, 2018  (Read 14634 times)

Offline Chris Bergin

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2018/08/commercial-crew-nasa-goal-human-transport/ - by Chris Gebhardt

Thread for the announcement.

Live on NASA TV. Will add notes here.

This morning at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, NASA will announce the astronauts who will be assigned to four commercial crew flights aboard Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft. NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine will preside over the event, which will begin at 11 a.m. EDT



The next generation of American spacecraft and rockets that will launch astronauts to the International Space Station are nearing the final stages of development and evaluation. NASA’s Commercial Crew Program will return human spaceflight launches to U.S. soil, providing safe, reliable and cost-effective access to low-Earth orbit on systems that meet our safety and mission requirements. To meet NASA’s requirements, the commercial providers must demonstrate that their systems are ready to begin regular flights to the space station. Two of those demonstrations are uncrewed flight tests, known as Orbital Flight Test for Boeing, and Demo-1 for SpaceX. After the uncrewed flight tests, both companies will execute a flight test with crew prior to being certified by NASA for crew rotation missions. The following schedule reflects the most recent publicly releasable dates for both providers.

Targeted Test Flight Dates:
Boeing Orbital Flight Test (uncrewed): late 2018 / early 2019
Boeing Crew Flight Test (crewed): mid-2019
SpaceX Demo-1 (uncrewed): November 2018
SpaceX Demo-2 (crewed): April 2019

This morning at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, nine astronauts were assigned to four Commercial Crew flights aboard Boeing and SpaceX spacecraft.

Boeing’s crew flight test aboard its Starliner spacecraft, which is targeted to launch in mid-2019, will have Eric Boe, Chris Ferguson and Nicole Mann on board. Boeing’s first post-certification mission will have Josh Cassada and Suni Williams aboard.

SpaceX’s demo mission 2 aboard its Crew Dragon spacecraft, which is targeted to launch in April 2019, will have Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley aboard. The first post-certification mission will be crewed by Victor Glover and Mike Hopkins.
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Mass cheers lol
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The video they showed, now uploaded to NASA.gov:

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Mark Geyer notes it's not just about domestic launch, it'll allow a larger ISS crew (seven).
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Bob Cabana manages to get a SLS and Orion reference in. And that gets a big round of applause.
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Big reference for 39A returning to crew launches.
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NASA boss thanks the senators and representatives. Didn't use the usual route of mentioning the President. Keeps it bi-partisan.
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Starliner crew first:


Eric Boe - Shuttle legend
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Fergie!
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Dragon 2:

Bob!
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Doug!
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Re: Commercial Crew Assignments Announcement - Aug 3, 2018
« Reply #13 on: 08/03/2018 03:21 pm »
How come the Starliner crew gets two shuttle pilots and the SpaceX crew only got one?

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Starliner
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Starliner gets Suni
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Dragon 2
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Dragon 2 gets Mike
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Crews!
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Re: Commercial Crew Assignments Announcement - Aug 3, 2018
« Reply #19 on: 08/03/2018 03:27 pm »
Why no women flying on any Space X Dragon ?

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Here come the prepared answers. Doug Hurley throws in the jokes, however.
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Yes Bob! Praises how capable the Shuttle was "so majestically". But notes Dragon 2 has less buttons.
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"Dragon 2 is like flying an iPhone".
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This morning at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, nine astronauts were assigned to four Commercial Crew flights aboard Boeing and SpaceX spacecraft.

Boeing’s crew flight test aboard its Starliner spacecraft, which is targeted to launch in mid-2019, will have Eric Boe, Chris Ferguson and Nicole Mann on board. Boeing’s first post-certification mission will have Josh Cassada and Suni Williams aboard.

SpaceX’s demo mission 2 aboard its Crew Dragon spacecraft, which is targeted to launch in April 2019, will have Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley aboard. The first post-certification mission will be crewed by Victor Glover and Mike Hopkins.
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Nevermind capture the flag, they are getting to launch with one.
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Cheeky photo op by Gwynne. Thanks Elon for the opportunity. Notes the 7,000 employees for the great work.
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"We're not going to let you down. Ad Astra"
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That was fun.
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Re: Commercial Crew Assignments Announcement - Aug 3, 2018
« Reply #28 on: 08/03/2018 03:48 pm »
Nevermind capture the flag, they are getting to launch with one.

I think that they will still capture the flag. But that flag is already on ISS. But I think that it is a good idea to have another flag. It shouldn't be a race.

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Re: Commercial Crew Assignments Announcement - Aug 3, 2018
« Reply #30 on: 08/03/2018 05:17 pm »
Another great article Chris G!

Edit to add that I can't wait to see the new FPIP :)
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Re: Commercial Crew Assignments Announcement - Aug 3, 2018
« Reply #31 on: 08/03/2018 05:24 pm »
That was really fun to watch, super excited and fantastic article!
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Re: Commercial Crew Assignments Announcement - Aug 3, 2018
« Reply #33 on: 08/03/2018 05:42 pm »
If someone missed the live broadcast

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Re: Commercial Crew Assignments Announcement - Aug 3, 2018
« Reply #34 on: 08/03/2018 11:40 pm »
If someone missed the live broadcast ...
Here is the complete 45:57 presentation.

[Replaced the CBC news version with NASA's, gaining an extra minute and a half of video and losing the extra watermark.]

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