Boeing Entering the Great Race

The great passenger jet company Boeing is now making news in space.  The company is working on their CST-100 Spaceship and plans to be sending a crew within it into space by 2017.  The craft resembles many of the other deep space ships being produced lately.  They all seem to be applying a gum drop shape to their return modules.  This push foreword by Boeing has been heavily financed by NASA, hoping to rely less on the Russian space program.  The CST-100 will be able to hold seven crew members, be reused 10 times, and be able to land on land.  This means that this ship will be the first to land on land since the space shuttle program, everything else lands in the ocean.  The ship will mostly be used to send crew members back and fourth form the International Space Station (ISS) but Boeing says it may take normal people into space on joy rides, hoping to make some money off the ship.   

This artist's illustration depicts a Boeing CST-100 spacecraft approaching a private inflatable space station complex designed by Bigelow Aerospace.Credit: Boeing