Since the retirement of the US Space Shuttle in 2011, only Russia and China have maintained human spaceflight capability with the Soyuz program and Shenzhou program. Currently, all expeditions to the International Space Station use Soyuz vehicles, which remain attached to the station to allow quick return if needed. The United States is developing commercial crew transportation to facilitate domestic access to ISS and low Earth orbit, as well as the Orion vehicle for beyond-low Earth orbit applications.
The Space Programme 2040 is a satellite development and launch programme of the Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (Suparco) — Pakistan's supreme space research authority. The Space Programme 2040 intends to replace the Badr satellite programme and geo-stationary communication satellite. On August 11, Paksat-IR was launched from Xichang Satellite Launch Center by China, making it first satellite to be launched under this programme. According to Suparco, five GEO satellites and six LEO satellites will be launched in between 2011 till 2040.
The stated goals of the program are to expected gain significant experience in satellite development, practicing of Space medicine, and to promote socio-economic sector in the country. While, the programme intend to learn to developed the military and space technologies and to conduct experiments on fundamental sciences in space frontier, the Government maintained that Space Programme-2040's prime purpose to bring the benefits of the full spectrum of space technology to the people of Pakistan. On July 15, 2011, Prime ministerYousaf Gillani gave official approval of the programme with the 2011 Pakistan fiscal year budget.
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...Sunita Williams to the space station ... Both Boeing and SpaceX signed a contract with NASA's CommercialCrew Programme to fly operational missions to and from the space station with Starliner in 2014.
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Don’t go thinking that I’m soft on crime or pro-criminal or anything like that ...There are 12,000 prisoners there. It’s got space for 40,000. The inmates aren’t allowed to have any visitors and there are no rehabilitation programmes of any sort ... Nonsense.
... SpaceX. “Design and development is hard — particularly with a human space vehicle,” said Mark Nappi, vice president and Starliner programme manager at Boeing, during a Thursday news briefing.
...SpaceStation (ISS) after years of anticipation ... The spacecraft of both firms were developed under NASA's CommercialCrew Programme following the retirement of NASA's space shuttle fleet in 2011.
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