Orbital Sciences Corporation is working with NASA to develop a spacecraft to ferry astronauts to and from ISS, among other things. OSC has named the craft Prometheus.
Prometheus would be a blended lifting body that would initially carry four astronauts, but could eventually carry six. It would launch atop a rocket, but land on a runway. Prometheus would be designed to compete with Russia's Soyuz, SpaceX's Dragon, and perhaps others, to service ISS. That should lower the cost to orbit, perhaps opening new possibilities for commerce and research.
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