Commercial Human-Rated Spacecraft: Prototype Tests Continue | Video NASA Commercial Crew Program partners Blue Origin, Boeing, Sierra Nevada Corporation and SpaceX are on-track to provide astronauts with rides into orbit at much less cost than government-built vehicles. -- million deal keeps Americans launching to the International Space Station aboard Russian Soyuz through 2016, - See more at: http://goo.gl/A8eWte
Mighty Eagle 'Rocks' Flight Testing Series. The 'Mighty Eagle,' a NASA robotic prototype lander, recently completed a series of test objectives -- even going as high as 100 feet for several free flights. The vehicle is a three-legged prototype that resembles an actual flight lander design. It is 4 feet tall and 8 feet in diameter and, when fueled, weighs 700 pounds.