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#20
by
arachnitect
on 26 Jan, 2015 16:15
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Bolden "I'm a 'used-to-be-astronaut'"
Notes history of ISS, upcoming year long mission, says making concrete steps towards Mars
"you're the luckiest people in the world" "just suck it up and enjoy this"
[Basically telling the astronauts to stop complaining about the program.]
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#21
by
Chris Bergin
on 26 Jan, 2015 16:15
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He's getting emotional about wanting to ride on a Dragon or CST-100.
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#22
by
arachnitect
on 26 Jan, 2015 16:17
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Kathy Lueders: "It's great to finally be able to talk openly"
[I for one am also looking forward to it.]
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#23
by
Chris Bergin
on 26 Jan, 2015 16:17
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Kathy being honest too. Saying they were in blackout with the procurement and protest. Was an early Christmas present.
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#24
by
arachnitect
on 26 Jan, 2015 16:19
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Lueders: Crew science will double to 80 hours a week. Shortest downmass handover time ever.
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#25
by
arachnitect
on 26 Jan, 2015 16:20
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Lueders: 5 NASA required certification milestones, companies proposed additional milestones.
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#26
by
MattMason
on 26 Jan, 2015 16:21
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Lueders: Confirmed that Boeing will also have uncrewed cargo flights along with SpaceX.
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#27
by
Chris Bergin
on 26 Jan, 2015 16:22
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Seems to be a refusal to say 2017 so far.....likely because it's now 2018.
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#28
by
The Amazing Catstronaut
on 26 Jan, 2015 16:23
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Talk about retrieving the flag - interesting, hard-to-interpret response.
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#29
by
mlindner
on 26 Jan, 2015 16:23
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Talk about retrieving the flag - interesting, hard-to-interpret response.
Sounded like they wanted to bring up a second flag so that each company could bring a flag down.
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#30
by
Chris Bergin
on 26 Jan, 2015 16:23
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Boeing guy excited.
Gets SLS mentioned.
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#31
by
arachnitect
on 26 Jan, 2015 16:24
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John Elbon from Boeing:
International Docking Adapter turned over last week. "No time in history with more spaceflight hardware in development." (sneaks in a reference to Europa).
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#32
by
Star One
on 26 Jan, 2015 16:25
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He's very keen which is good to hear considering Boeing's large space footprint.
First 2 milestones completed on schedule.
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#33
by
The Amazing Catstronaut
on 26 Jan, 2015 16:27
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He's prophesying that Boeing will be (in 100 years) to commercial space what Boeing is right now to commercial aviation. Exciting attitude.
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#34
by
Star One
on 26 Jan, 2015 16:28
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Uncrewed mission test will be the 75th Atlas mission & crewed is 80th December 2017.
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#35
by
arachnitect
on 26 Jan, 2015 16:28
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Elbon: First 2 milestones completed on schedule (certification baseline review, ground systems CDR). Partnered with Flight Operations at JSC. Crew access tower construction started.
Crew flight test will be Atlas #80.
hardware for first flight article coming this year.
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#36
by
Chris Bergin
on 26 Jan, 2015 16:29
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Ground Seg CDR complete for CST-100, working with JSC MOD.
Crew access tower work has begun, to be assembled inbetween Atlas V launches.
OPF-3 work continuing. Crew flight hardware construction soon.
Flight software to be delivered in the summer.
Flights in 2017, claiming December 2017 for the crew mission....
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#37
by
The Amazing Catstronaut
on 26 Jan, 2015 16:30
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Feb 2017 pad abort test for the CST 100.
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#38
by
Chris Bergin
on 26 Jan, 2015 16:30
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#39
by
arachnitect
on 26 Jan, 2015 16:31
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Spacex initial landing will be water landing with parachutes.
