The best - put plans have astronauts returning to Earth on ironical land when they catch a drive on Boeing ’s CST-100 in the time to come , but NASA ’s emergency plans dunked the ballistic capsule in splashdown tests to ensure waterlogged astronauts would still retrieve their room home .
Top image : Emergency splashdown scenario testing at NASA ’s Langley Reserach Center on April 9 , 2015 . Credit : Boeing
NASA ’s commercial-grade crew programis counting onSpaceX ’s DragonandBoeing ’s CST-100to take over shuttle astronauts to the International Space Station in the not - so - upstage futurity . Whilewe’ve try about the Dragon of late , so it ’s about time for us to tally in on the CST-100 .
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Boeing#CST100capsule made liberal splash today@NASALangley ’s hydro impact basin , test abort scenarios.pic.twitter.com/lXHQEGMn53
— NASA Langley Research Center ( @NASA_Langley)April 9 , 2015
Boeing ’s infinite taxicab is intend to yield to Earth on farming , but in an exercise of serious - secure - than - sorry , NASA insist that the ballistic capsule are also capable of continue astronauts awake through an unwitting water landing . To that ending , Boeing subjugate its CST-100 to a spattering examination in a massive puddle at Langley Research Center in Virginia .
This is the 2nd curing of splatter test for the spacecraft . CST-100 last went for a swim in 2013 :
TBT:#Boeing#CST1002013 splash exam in Nevada . We ’ve come a long way + will go further : ISS@NASA@Commercial_Crewpic.twitter.com/3LiVPz4hWx
— Boeing Defense ( @BoeingDefense)April 9 , 2015
enquire the CST-100 after a splash - trial . figure course credit : Boeing
This spacecraft doubles as a very unenviable vessel . figure credit : Boeing
While examination continues here on the land in expectancy of first crewed flight in 2017,astronauts are reconfiguring the space stationto accommodate their fresh drive .
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