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Old December 3rd 17, 12:32 PM posted to sci.space.policy
Fred J. McCall[_3_]
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Jeff Findley wrote:

In article ,
says...

Jeff Findley wrote:

In article ,
says...

I wanted to follow up with this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CST-100_Starliner I was reading this earlier
tonight and came across

"As of 2014, the CST-100 was to include one space tourist seat, and the
Boeing contract with NASA allows Boeing to price and sell passage to
low-Earth orbit on that seat."

and

"Part of the agreement with NASA allows Boeing to sell seats for space
tourists. Boeing proposed including one seat per flight for a space flight
participant at a price that would be competitive with what Roscosmos charges
tourists.[32]"

This leads to:
https://www.reuters.com/article/boei...0RI2XY20140917


Makes sense, and I'm all for it. If NASA doesn't need the seat, why not
let the commercial crew provider sell the seat to someone else?


Does SpaceX also get this deal or just Boeing? Since Dragon V2 can be
configured to carry up to seven people, just what would allowing
'spare' seats to be sold to tourists mean?


You'd think the deal would (eventually) apply to both suppliers. I
don't see how NASA could allow Boeing to do this yet deny SpaceX the
same deal if they requested it.


I can see how they could quite easily. How can they give one
contender millions more in funds than the other?


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