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An audit by the NASA Inspector General released today indicates that the commercial crew program will likely delayed further due to technical and administrative challenges at significant cost to U.S. taxpayers. Synopsis First commercial crew flights likely to slip to late 2018 — 3 years beyond original schedule Boeing and SpaceX facing significant design challenges, including CST-100 weight and excess seawater seeping into the Dragon capsule “Significant” delays in NASA […]https://parabolicarc.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Launch_America_Commercial_Crew.png