Commercial Crew Development

The Commercial Crew Development ( CCDev ) program of NASA was created to promote the development of privately owned space capsules in order to get into the Low Earth Orbit.

History

The CCDev program is the responsibility of the Commercial Crew and Cargo Program Office ( C3PO ) of NASA. Within the CCDev program, NASA has concluded agreements with various companies to develop technologies and systems for manned space flight. To this end, in 2010 a total of 50 million U.S. dollars were paid to five U.S. companies to support research and development of concepts and technologies. Originally, the program should include a circumference of 150 million U.S. dollars. 100 million U.S. dollar were redirected to the Constellation program.

In the second year a total of 270 million U.S. dollars were awarded. The largest item went there with $ 92.3 million to Boeing to develop the CST -100 concept to a mature test space capsule. More than 80 million U.S. dollars, the Sierra Nevada Corporation ( SNC) was delighted with their Dream Chaser. With 75 million U.S. dollars SpaceX was honored ( spaceship ) to develop the Dragon. The remaining 22 million U.S. dollars was for Blue Origin, a concept of a biconical vehicle to be started first on a conventional rocket and later on a reusable booster system.

In August 2012, the third round of funding was approved. Boeing received 460 million U.S. dollars for the crew capsule CST -100 awarded to SpaceX received $ 440 million for Dragon and the Sierra Nevada Corp.. 212.5 million U.S. dollars for Dream Chaser.

Promotions

The firms assisted and funded projects are:

  • Blue Origin - received 3.7 million U.S. dollars for the development of the innovative ' pusher ' Launch Abort System ( LAS)
  • Boeing - received 18 million U.S. dollars for the development of the CST -100 space capsule
  • Paragon Space Development Corporation - received 1.4 million for the development of a life support system
  • Sierra Nevada Corporation - received 20 million U.S. dollars for the further development of the Dream Chaser
  • United Launch Alliance - received 6.7 million U.S. dollars for the further development of its Emergency Detection System ( EDS = ) to improve the safety of the Atlas V and Delta IV launch vehicles.
  • SpaceX - received on 18 April 2011 by the NASA 76 million U.S. dollars for the latest developments
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