NASA’s Commercial Crew Program’s original equipment manufacturers, such as SpaceX, Blue Origin, Sierra Nevada Corporation, and Boeing, are tasked with delivering safe, reliable, and cost-effective human transportation to and from the International Space Station. Amentum routinely collaborates with each of these commercial partners in development support, risk assessment, and testing of critical crew life-support systems, thermal control systems, as well as advanced docking system analysis and testing.
Our team of engineers provide oversight and monitoring of commercial crew vehicle life-support systems development and oversee flight software and avionics systems development being performed by spacecraft vendors. Aerodynamic and aerothermodynamic simulations of launch, abort, and re-entry, as well as parachute analyses are performed for Commercial Crew Program missions. We provide oversight of integrated guidance, navigation and control performance for Commercial Crew Program providers SpaceX and Boeing.