Sorry to say it everyone: the CST-100 will not be called the Boeing Going. Instead, Boeing's commercial crew resupply vehicle to the International Space Station will be named Starliner, a name to separate it a little from the Crew Dragon, Space X's vehicle. 

Both will serve as a sort of replacement for the space shuttle, with NASA renting seats on the vehicles from each company to ferry astronauts and supplies up to the ISS starting (hopefully) in 2017. Congress has given NASA less than it's asked for to get to the ISS, so development of the commercial crew program may be delayed. 

The United States has been without a launch vehicle since 2011, when the space shuttle program was retired. With no immediate successor, NASA has rented space on Soyuz capsules, an expensive proposition at $70.7 million per seat. With Crew Dragon and Starliner, that price will go way, way down, and enable launches from American soil again. The Starliner will launch atop an Atlas V rocket when it makes its maiden voyage in 2017. Probably.  


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John Wenz is a Popular Mechanics writer and space obsessive based in Philadelphia. He tweets @johnwenz.