Boeing Space Exploration Corporation

Mining & Minerals - Evaluations / Off-World Exploration, Mining, & Technology

Date posted: 05/28/13

Boeing Space Exploration, headquartered in Houston, is a leading provider of human spaceflight and space exploration systems and services. Since the dawn of the Space Age, Boeing has designed, developed, built and operated human and robotic space vehicles as well as supporting hardware. The Boeing legacy began with the X-15, spanned Gemini, Mercury, Apollo and Skylab, and continues with the Space Shuttle, International Space Station and Commercial Crew programs. Space Exploration, a division within Boeing Defense, Space and Security Network and Space Systems business, employs approximately 3,000 people in Alabama, California, Florida and Texas. Boeing Space Exploration division supports the safe fly-out of the space shuttle program and will continue to work with NASA and its partners on the International Space Station (ISS) program to maximize its utility as a national research facility for the benefit of all mankind. As NASA defines it roadmap for the future, Boeing will apply its 50 years of experience in human spaceflight to assist NASA as it matures the technologies needed, such as a Space Launch System for crewed exploration missions beyond Earth's orbit, while leveraging our design work to date on the Ares I upper stage rocket and associated avionics. Boeing is working with NASA to ensure continued U.S. leadership in human spaceflight programs.