page_title: Development of the Commercial Crew Program
section_title: CCDev 1
hierarchical_section_title: Development of the Commercial Crew Program / Development program overview / CCDev 1
caption_attribution_description: English: CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Orbiter Processing Facility-3 (OPF-3) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a pressure vessel for The Boeing Company’s CST-100 spacecraft is unveiled at the ceremony announcing the signing of an innovative agreement between NASA and Space Florida. NASA announced a partnership with Space Florida to occupy, use and modify Kennedy Space Center's Orbiter Processing Facility-3 (OPF-3), the Space Shuttle Main Engine Processing Facility and Processing Control Center. Space Florida has an agreement for use of the OPF-3 with the Boeing Company to manufacture and test the company's Crew Space Transportation (CST-100) spacecraft. The 15-year use permit deal is the latest step Kennedy is making as the center transitions from a historically government-only launch complex to a multi-user spaceport.
context_page_description: Development of the Commercial Crew Program began in the second round of the Commercial Crew Development program, which was rescoped from a technology development program for human spaceflight to a competitive development program that would produce the spacecraft to be used in the Commercial Crew Program. Starting in 2011, NASA procured concepts from private vendors for crew vehicles to carry US and international astronauts to and from the International Space Station. Operational contracts to fly astronauts were awarded in September 2014 to SpaceX and Boeing.
  An uncrewed test flight was performed by each company in 2019. Space-X's Crew Dragon Demo-1 flight of Dragon 2 arrived at the International Space Station in March 2019 and returned via splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean. Due to a Mission Elapsed Time anomaly, the Boeing Orbital Flight Test of the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft failed to reach the station in December 2019, but completed some test objectives and performed a safe airbag landing. Due to this, Boeing and NASA have agreed to refly the OFT mission in the fall of 2020.
context_section_description: Commercial Crew Development phase 1 (CCDev 1) consisted of $50 million awarded in 2010 to five US companies to develop human spaceflight concepts and technologies. NASA awarded development funds to five companies under CCDev 1:
  Blue Origin: $3.7M for a 'pusher' Launch Abort System (LAS) and composite pressure vessels.
  Boeing: $18M for development of the CST-100 Starliner
  Paragon Space Development Corporation: $1.4M for a plug-and-play environmental control and life support system (ECLSS) Air Revitalization System (ARS) Engineering Development Unit.
  Sierra Nevada Corporation: $20M for development of the Dream Chaser
  United Launch Alliance: $6.7M for an Emergency Detection System (EDS) for human-rating Atlas V
caption: Construction of the Starliner pressure vessel was one of Boeing's CCDev 1 milestones
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