Spacex Makes 1.4 Billion Deal With Nasa For Five More Missions

SpaceX will launch five more astronaut missions to the International Space Station for NASA by the end of the decade under a $1.4 billion contract, the US space agency announced Wednesday, bringing the company’s total agreed-upon Crew Dragon capsule missions to 14 . The latest boost to SpaceX’s contract with NASA is part of the agency’s effort to ensure a steady flow of astronauts to the space station as Boeing BA.N, the other company with a similar crew contract, has struggled to complete space development Starliner capsule. The award “allows NASA to maintain an uninterrupted US capability for human access to the space station through 2030, with two unique commercial crew industry partners,” the agency said in a statement. SpaceX and Boeing won multibillion-dollar contracts with NASA in 2014 to develop, test and routinely fly space capsule systems capable of sending astronauts to and from the space station, an orbiting research laboratory that houses international crews of astronauts up since two decades. SpaceX’s reusable Crew Dragon capsule has flown five crewed missions for NASA since it was crew-certified in 2020, when it became the first private company to launch humans into orbit and revived NASA’s human spaceflight program after it retired US program in 2011. Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner capsule, plagued by software bugs and valve malfunctions, aims to fly its first crew of astronauts in February next year, seeking to pass a final test mission before NASA can certify the spacecraft for routine flights astronauts. NASA initially awarded each company six crewed missions, but ordered three more from SpaceX in early 2022 amid Boeing’s technical problems. (Reporting by Joey Roulette Editing by Richard Pullin)

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SpaceX will launch five more astronaut missions to the International Space Station for NASA by the end of the decade under a $1.4 billion contract, the US space agency announced Wednesday, bringing the company’s total agreed-upon Crew Dragon capsule missions to 14 . The latest boost to SpaceX’s contract with NASA is part of the agency’s effort to ensure a steady flow of astronauts to the space station as Boeing BA.N, the other company with a similar crew contract, has struggled to complete space development Starliner capsule. The award “allows NASA to maintain an uninterrupted US capability for human access to the space station through 2030, with two unique commercial crew industry partners,” the agency said in a statement. SpaceX and Boeing won multibillion-dollar contracts with NASA in 2014 to develop, test and routinely fly space capsule systems capable of sending astronauts to and from the space station, an orbiting research laboratory that houses international crews of astronauts up since two decades. SpaceX’s reusable Crew Dragon capsule has flown five crewed missions for NASA since it was crew-certified in 2020, when it became the first private company to launch humans into orbit and revived NASA’s human spaceflight program after it retired US program in 2011. Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner capsule, plagued by software bugs and valve malfunctions, aims to fly its first crew of astronauts in February next year, seeking to pass a final test mission before NASA can certify the spacecraft for routine flights astronauts. NASA initially awarded each company six crewed missions, but ordered three more from SpaceX in early 2022 amid Boeing’s technical problems. (Reporting by Joey Roulette Editing by Richard Pullin)