Blue Origin, founded by Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com, is developing a “pusher” escape system for its planned orbital Space Vehicle.
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C3PO
Commercial Crew & Cargo Program
The C3PO will extend human presence in space by enabling an expanding and robust U.S. commercial space transportation industry.
COTS
Commercial Orbital Transportation Services
C3PO is responsible for managing NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) projects.
CCDev
Commercial Crew Development
Commercial Crew Development is a NASA investment that will aid in the development and demonstration of safe, reliable, and cost-effective space transportation capabilities.
Commercial Transportation
The Commercial Spaceflight theme encompasses completion of commercial cargo capability milestones and will expand NASA's efforts to develop commercial crew capability to LEO and the ISS.
Commercial Crew Program
NASA’s Commercial Crew Program (CCP) is an innovative partnership to help the United States industry develop space transportation systems that can safely launch astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) and other low Earth orbit destinations.
ISS
International Space Station Program (ISS)
A human outpost in space bringing nations together for the benefit of life on Earth and beyond.
CCDev Partners
Blue Origin
Boeing
Boeing, a leading aerospace company, is developing a Commercial Crew Vehicle which can be launched on a variety of launch vehicles.
Paragon
Paragon, a space technology company, is developing an Air Revitalization System, part of their life support subsystem for commercial crew transportation.
Sierra Nevada
Sierra Nevada Corporation, a growing aerospace company, is designing and developing the Dream Chaser spacecraft to transport up to seven crew members and cargo to orbit.
United Launch Alliance
ULA, which builds the Atlas and Delta launch vehicles, is designing an Emergency Detection System which would be needed to human rate their launch vehicles.