The American space agency and private companies are developing vehicles to take humans into low Earth orbit and even farther into space. A space vehicle system called Crew Space Transportation is a part of the effort. Boeing, the aircraft manufacturer, says its CST-100 Starliner will start flying human crews to the International Space Station by the end of next year. The United States no longer uses its reusable space shuttle to send astronauts into space. The last shuttle flight took place in 2011. Since then, the U.S. space agency has depended on Russian spacecraft to launch crews to the International Space Station. Boeing and another company, Space X, say they can fly astronauts to low orbits for about $20 million less than the current Russian spacecraft, Soyuz. Astronauts are already training for commercial spacecraft missions in flight simulators.
Title: NASA Astronauts Train for Commercial Space Flights
Content: <div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1068/space_audio.m4a' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='NASA Astronauts Train for Commercial Space Flights' data-article-id='1565'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='13354'>The American space agency and private companies are developing vehicles to take humans into low Earth orbit and even farther into space.</span> <span data-start-time='13354' data-end-time='21125'>A space vehicle system called Crew Space Transportation is a part of the effort. </span> <span data-start-time='21125' data-end-time='37250'>Boeing, the aircraft manufacturer, says its CST-100 Starliner will start flying human crews to the International Space Station by the end of next year.</span> <span data-start-time='37250' data-end-time='46188'>The United States no longer uses its reusable space shuttle to send astronauts into space. </span> <span data-start-time='46188' data-end-time='51063'>The last shuttle flight took place in 2011.</span> <span data-start-time='51063' data-end-time='63521'>Since then, the U.S. space agency has depended on Russian spacecraft to launch crews to the International Space Station.</span> <span data-start-time='63521' data-end-time='79167'>Boeing and another company, Space X, say they can fly astronauts to low orbits for about $20 million less than the current Russian spacecraft, Soyuz.</span> <span data-start-time='79167' data-end-time='86938'>Astronauts are already training for commercial spacecraft missions in flight simulators.</span> </p></div><div 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