Boeing/Bigelow Crew Space Transport Vehicle

Boeing video animation of the CST-100 crew transportation vehicle being designed with Bigelow Aerospace under NASA's Commercial Crew Development (CCDev) program. The seven-crew CST-100 is bigger than the Apollo capsule, but smaller than NASA's Orion, and is designed to be launched by a range of rockets incoluding Atlas IV, Delta V and Falcon 9.Video shows the capsule operating with Bigelow's planned inflatable-module Orbital Space Complex.

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Science & Technology

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• aerospace
• space
• NASA
• capsule

[whiteskullwhiteskull]

@Darko2625, is that future? You want to see technology of the future, this future... youtube search: "Virgin Galactic Space Tourist Animation"

[Darko2625]

The future is here...

[PlanckLimit]

@ChannelingusXIVC

You might be interested in checking out the Roton Rotary Rocket then. Vids of it on Youtube here in addition to various pages across the internet. :D

[bryinusa]

Well I like the concept. Sometimes the beauty and cost-effectiveness along with safety is in its simplicity! The more complex a system, the more delicate, and thus more expensive it is. The Russians are a great example. Keep it simple and cost effective!

Well done Boeing and Bigelow!

[bryinusa]

Well I like the concept. Sometimes the beauty and cost-effectiveness along with safety is in its simplicity! The more complex a system, the more delicate, and thus more expensive it is. The Russians are a great example. Keep it simple and cost effective!

Well done Boeing!

[granddad2002]

With better facilities like these... the industrial laboratory sections can get to work in micro-gravity chemistry. The number of new kinds of drugs and more sensitive litmus tests that can be manufactured will justify the porfolio costs. These kind of modules will hopefully grow like mushrooms in LEO. How many modules will have to be up there before you need a full time human staff?

[kcwilsonii]

@beatlefriend

Just looks like they leaped back 40 years, waste of time and money

[rampike74]

@beatlefriend

Exactly. And what is the point of building a winged reentry capsule anyway? You can de-orbit roughly any place you want.

[CosmicDamian]

@hihosh1 I was just making a little joke. Honestly, I fear the time for much of this has passed. The big projects for the next few generations are going to be oil wars, and if we're lucky, diverting enough resoruces to power generation and transportation infrastructure to survive medium term. We can't flush any more money down the Boeing/Lockheed/Northrop toilet. Give the money to SpaceX, and we'll get essential LEO services. Moon-Mars? 2150, maybe.

[hihosh1]

@CosmicDamian so you would rather they finish a terrestrial vehicle over a ballistic vehicle? Think about if they create something that can get you from 1 side of the earth to another within an hour or could get you to the moon easier, etc.. Isn't that better.