Human-Rating Commercial Vehicles

By Frank Morring, Jr.
Washington

NASA will try to “tailor” the approach it takes to human-rating commercial vehicles for its astronauts, looking for middle ground between the prescriptive approach it has taken with its own human spacecraft and the analysis it gave Russia’s Soyuz vehicles before U.S. astronauts started flying on them.

The U.S. space agency is at the end of months of internal ...

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