The Shuttle’s successors
July 22, 2011 | Source: BBC News
Boeing's CST-100 could serve as a taxi to the International Space Station Boeing's vehicle and also take paying passengers into space (credit: Boeing)
NASA is looking to the private sector to provide a new generation of space vehicles to take on the work of delivering crew and cargo to the International Space Station and low-Earth orbit.
Five of the possible successors: Boeing’s CST-100, SpaceX’s Dragon, Sierra Nevada Corp’s Dream Chaser, NASA/Lockheed Martin’s MPCV, and Blue Origin’s Space vehicle.
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