Boeing's Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 can hold seven crew
and will be bigger than Apollo but smaller than NASA's Orion,
and be able to launch on a variety of different rockets,
including Atlas, Delta and Falcon. It will use a simple systems
architecture and existing, proven components, Boeing stated. The
company envisions the spacecraft supporting the International
Space Station and future Bigelow Aerospace Orbital Space Complex
systems. Bigelow is building what it calls "expandable
habitats," that which are inflatable spacecraft would act as
large, less costly space stations. In Feb. NASA awarded some $50
million to Blue Origin, Boeing, Paragon Space Development
Corporation, Sierra Nevada Corporation and United Launch
Alliance to develop and demonstrate safe, reliable, and cost-
effective capabilities to transport cargo and eventually crew to
low-Earth orbit and the ISS. CCDev represents a milestone in the
development of an orbital commercial human spaceflight sector,
NASA stated. By maturing "the desi