Boeing hopes that those flights will be made in their CST 100 capsule

[Interviewer] And Boeing hopes that those flights will be made in their CST 100 capsule. Their weldless design makes their crafts stronger and lighter than traditional models. I am ready to get inside this space capsule. [Speaker 2] Well, come on in.[Interviewer] Okay. How many astronauts will fly in this capsule? [Speaker 2] Right now we’ve configured it to fly up to five, but the CST 100 is designed for up to seven. We have the significant experience obviously in capsules from Mercury and Gemini Apollo. The capsule was an easy decision. [Interviewer] What about comfort? This isn’t exactly the most comfortable position I have ever been in. [Speaker 2] No absolutely, but because of the potential with different anomalies, you can have a very rough landing. We needed to make sure that this design would satisfy even the roughest potential landing. [Interviewer] Chris Ferguson piloted America’s last shuttle and his new mission is to get Boeing’s commercial space program off the ground. This is the simulator for the CST 1OO?[Chris Ferguson] Yes, this is going to be what we call our engineering simulator. [Interviewer] How similar is commanding a spaceship to pilot an airplane? [Chris Ferguson] Well if you sit here and look at this cockpit, you say wow looks like I am in a fighter airplane. Boeing has been building fighter airplanes for decades so we were able to take a lot of the expertise and actually involve a lot of the people who designed these cockpits and make them a part of the this righthere. [Interviewer] Do you think that that lineage in history gives Boeing a leg up over their competitors? [Chris Ferguson] I would like to think so, of course, Boeing was the prime contractor to build the space shuttle

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