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Boeing’s commercial CST-100 ‘Space Taxi’ will carry a crew of five astronauts to low Earth orbit and the ISS from US soil. Mockup with astronaut mannequins seated below pilot console and Samsung tablets was unveiled on June 9, 2014 at its planned manufacturing facility at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credit: Ken Kremer – kenkremer.com
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – On Monday, June 9, Boeing revealed the design of their CST-100 spaceliner aimed at restoring Americas ability to launch our astronauts to low-Earth orbit (LEO) and the International Space Station (ISS) by 2017.
The full scale CST-100 mockup was unveiled at an invitation only ceremony attended by Universe Today and held inside a newly renovated shuttle era facility at the Kennedy Space Center where the capsule would start being manufactured later this year. (…)
Read the rest of Tour Around Boeing’s CST-100 Spaceliner to LEO: Photos (314 words)
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