Nasa has warned Space X and Boeing about safety concerns for their competing astronaut launch systems, threatening to delay US plans to revive its human spaceflight programme later this year. Nasa forged agreements with Space X for $2.6bn (£2bn) and Boeing for $4.2bn to build rocket and capsule launch systems to take astronauts to the International Space Station, after its Space Shuttle programme shut down in 2011. Read more: UK Space Agency fires £18m into Softbank’s Oneweb for satellite network Earlier this month, Nasa’s safety advisory panel highlighted four “key risk items” in Space X and Boeing’s systems, just days before the first scheduled test flight under the space agency’s multi-billion-dollar commercial crew programme was meant to take place on 2 March. But according to two people with direct knowledge of the programme who spoke to Reuters, Nasa’s concerns go beyond the four items listed and includes a risk ledger that as of early February contained 30 to 35 lingering technical concerns for Space X and Boeing. Sources familiar with the matter told Reuters that the companies must address “most” of these concerns before flying astronauts, and eventually tourists, to space. Read more: Musk’s Space X finally launches first US… Read full this story
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