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Commercial Crew 10th Anniversary, April 5, 2021
« on: 04/02/2021 04:52 pm »
https://twitter.com/commercial_crew/status/1378026338314039296

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"What an amazing 10 years it has been."
 
On April 5, we'll celebrate 10 years of @Commercial_Crew. Today, the program's #LaunchAmerica missions to the @Space_Station ensure our orbiting laboratory has a full complement of crew to do @ISS_Research:



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SPACE STATION CREW MARKS THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE COMMERCIAL CREW PROGRAM

Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 64 Flight Engineers Kate Rubins and Mike Hopkins of NASA conducted a question and answer session with Commercial Crew Program Manager Steve Stich of NASA during an in-flight event April 2 marking the 10th anniversary of the initiation of the program. Rubins, who flew to the station aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft last October is in the final weeks of her six-month mission on the station as is Hopkins, who rode on the SpaceX Crew Dragon commercial vehicle “Resilience” to the outpost last November.

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Re: Commercial Crew 10th Anniversary, April 5, 2021
« Reply #1 on: 04/03/2021 05:37 pm »
The Commercial Crew Program officially started on April 5, 2011 but CCDev1 actually started on February 1, 2010 (at the same time as the FY 2011 Budget came out).

https://spacenews.com/biggest-ccdev-award-goes-sierra-nevada/ 
« Last Edit: 04/03/2021 05:40 pm by yg1968 »

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