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July 04, 2013

NASA Commercial Crew Partner SpaceX Completes Two Human-Critical Reviews
Hawthorne CA (SPX) Jul 04, 2013
Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, Calif., recently completed two milestones for NASA's Commercial Crew Integrated Capability (CCiCap) initiative, which is intended to make commercial human spaceflight services available for government and commercial customers. These were the fifth and sixth milestones for SpaceX, a partner in NASA's Commercial Crew Program (CCP). The company is on track to complete all 14 of its CCiCap milestones by mid-2014. In a human certificatio ... read more

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