The Boeing Company and NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) announced Monday their intention to assemble a commercial space capsule that will create hundreds of much needed jobs on the Space Coast.
Last Friday, NASA said the announcement is a “major” one and will take place at 10:00 a.m. on Monday at at NASA Kennedy’s Orbiter Processing Facility-3.
According to news reports, about 140 jobs will be created in the first 18 months and 550 jobs by 2015.
Boeing is developing the seven-person CST-100 capsule under NASA’s Commercial Crew Development program, which has awarded the company about $131 million through two rounds, flatoday.net reports.
The program seeks to develop commercial systems to shuttle astronauts to and from the International Space Station by end 2016.
