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NARRATOR: America's next generation of human-rated
spacecraft is being designed to be flown from

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launch through landing... by computers!. Complex
maneuvers including rendezvous and docking

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will be automated and precise to a level not capable with earlier machines.

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But that doesn't mean the spacecraft won't
need a pilot to take control should there

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be a problem.

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CHRIS FERGUSON: It's designed to be largely autonomous but the pilot will always be there to

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back up the autonomy in the event something unexpected happens.

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So we always have the ability to take over
from the vehicle and execute something whether

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it be a docking or a re-entry.

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NARRATOR: Boeing Space Exploration, one of
several companies working with

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NASA's Commercial Crew Program to develop
a new American spacecraft capable of carrying

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people to low-Earth orbit, recently showed that a pilot safely can assume control

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of the CST-100 in almost any circumstance.

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Working in a simulator at the company's Houston
office,

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Ferguson, a former NASA space shuttle commander,
demonstrated what flying the CST-100

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will look like with a person sitting in for
the computers at the controls.

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FERGUSON: This is the first opportunity that
we have that we can show we have a vehicle

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that can fly. We've used actual flight software,

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we've used our model displays and our

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real jet models to show that we

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have a vehicle that can stay under control,
can dock with the International Space Station

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and fly a re-entry.

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NARRATOR: The test's significant accomplishments
underscored two years' worth of work by

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the simulator and flight software development
team.

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Lynna WOOD: It's very exciting for us, it's
a very exciting day.

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It's been a long journey where we've learned
a lot. A lot of lessons learned, a lot of

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exciting progress was

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made. We did start this about a year ago when
we started writing the requirements for our

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partner who

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built the simulator as well as starting to
put the pieces together, see the switches

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go in, the displays together. The team has just done
a fantastic job pulling this together.

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NARRATOR: The demonstration a milestone under
Boeing's Commercial Crew Integrated Capabilities

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agreement with NASA.

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The simulator will next see increasingly demanding
conditions as it's connected with

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NASA's Mission Control Center at nearby Johnson
Space Center for mission simulations that

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include flight controllers and malfunction conditions.

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The CST-100 design will undergo a series of
reviews this spring that will take the plans

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for the capsule-