USCV Crew Rotation Question

[Thorny]

NASA should not compressed the review processes which is at least 6 months each for OFT-2 and CFT

Why would the review process be six months? Hasn't Boeing always said they expect a relatively short span between OFT and CFT (now that would be OFT-2 and CFT)?

[abaddon]

The days when that was believable are long gone.

[woods170]

NASA should not compressed the review processes which is at least 6 months each for OFT-2 and CFT

Why would the review process be six months? Hasn't Boeing always said they expect a relatively short span between OFT and CFT (now that would be OFT-2 and CFT)?

It is not up to Boeing to determine how much time passes between OFT-2 and CFT. NASA is in the lead there, because NASA is the certifying agency.

[SMS]

https://twitter.com/RussianSpaceWeb/status/1313884429312557057

[DwightM]

Minor mental nag that I have with this.

Logistically this seems wasteful: You would need to bring your landing vehicle's suit with you on the launching vehicle and the reverse going back down (or consume cargo volume on the launching vehicle with an empty suit).

Both suits are mostly single piece which consumes precious monolithic cargo space on both flights.

Alternately Boeing and SpaceX could release adapters / converters for their umbilicals 

I'm sure they could launch the landing suit in the landing vehicle instead of needing to bring it along.  I'm wondering if they're considering doing this if an RSA cosmonaut does not fly on Crew-3 and they put the one-year NASA astronaut in or is either Marshburn or Chari being tapped for that?

[kdhilliard]

I'm sure they could launch the landing suit in the landing vehicle instead of needing to bring it along.

They would, of course, need four suits for two people, since the long-duration-stay astronaut would be ascending in a Dragon and returning in a Starliner -- the opposite of the commercial visitor.

It would be funny if they limited the commercial visitor to being a body double of the long-duration-stay astronaut.  (I wonder which pool of candidates is larger.)

[dcfowler1]

I thought the Boeing naming system is CTS 1, CTS 2, etc. Don't know what CTS stands for though.

https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/2409

Crew Transport Service?

CTS = Crew Transfer System.