During a September 16 news conference at Kennedy Space Center – a major announcement by NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden that Boeing and SpaceX have been chosen to transport U.S. astronauts to and from the International Space Station – effectively putting America back into the business of launching humans to space – ending our sole reliance on Russia by 2017. Final pre-launch processing of the Boeing CST-100 and the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft will take place at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center with launches of the vehicles happening at nearby Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Also, SpaceX CRS-4 mission previewed, Astronaut visits commercial partner, Next space station crews prepare, MAVEN’s arrival at Mars, and Rosetta’s landing site.

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