New Space Shuttle

Hurley in 2009 and 2011 for the last space shuttle mission.
New space shuttle. It ll be the first time a new kind of spacecraft has launched astronauts into orbit since the space shuttle. Behnken in 2008 and 2010 and mr. Two private companies are racing to replace it and become the first to fly astronauts for nasa. Orion will serve as the exploration vehicle that will carry the crew to space provide emergency abort capability sustain the crew during the space travel and provide safe re entry from deep space return velocities.
The space shuttle was a partially reusable low earth orbital spacecraft system operated from 1981 to 2011 by the national aeronautics and space administration nasa as part of the space shuttle program its official program name was space transportation system sts taken from a 1969 plan for a system of reusable spacecraft where it was the only item funded for development. Its official name space transportation system sts was taken from a 1969 plan for a system of reusable spacecraft of which it was the only item funded for. Keep in mind that dream chaser is planned to be launched on top of a vulcan rocket and the first space shuttle prototype name you guessed it enterprise. The starliner was designed to accommodate seven passengers or a mix of crew and cargo for missions to low earth orbit.
Crew dragon has more room and. An experimental autonomous darpa. Each astronaut flew twice on the space shuttle. The space shuttle program was the fourth human spaceflight program carried out by the national aeronautics and space administration nasa which accomplished routine transportation for earth to orbit crew and cargo from 1981 to 2011.
Orion will launch on nasa s new heavy lift rocket the space launch system. Prototype of space shuttle named enterprise sierra nevada corp announced the name of the first dream chaser. A 21st century space capsule boeing s crew space transportation cst 100 starliner spacecraft is being developed in collaboration with nasa s commercial crew program. Us astronauts haven t had their own ride into orbit since the space shuttle was retired in 2011.