Sentence examples for crew development from inspiring English sources

Last year, NASA awarded $50 million in its first round of financing for commercial crew development.

The awards, part of what NASA calls its commercial crew development program, are a bet, pushed by the Obama administration, that commercial companies will be able to get people to and from orbit more quickly and less expensively.

This second round of commercial crew development awards is NASA's biggest step so far in breaking away from its past practice of developing and operating its own spacecraft like the space shuttles and before that the behemoth Saturn V rocket.

Construction supplies and personnel can be ferried up and back by expanding the successful commercial crew development program now servicing the ISS.

J. Crew's development of new sizes to serve Asian customers makes good business sense, and it is no less arbitrary than most other sizing standards.

A Senate version of the authorization bill, passed last month, reduced money for commercial crew and technology development to finance the development of a heavy-lift rocket.

The company said that the crew of the Development Driller III rig began drilling again after technicians installed a device called a lockdown sleeve at the top of the stricken well on the seabed.

Douglas R. Cooke, associate administrator of NASA's exploration systems mission directorate, which is running the commercial crew and cargo development programs, said that a draft of the human rating standards required of the commercial companies the same 1-in-1,000 chance of a fatal accident during launching that NASA's Ares I rocket and Orion capsule sought to meet.

To connect with customers, Pera launched an online forum where they can interact with his research and development crew.

The US space agency's intention is to invite the private sector to provide it with space transport services, and a number of commercial ventures already have crew ships in development.

One works for Boeing on the company's Starliner crew capsule under development.