NASA Purchases Five More Dragon Missions from SpaceX Written 13 June 2022
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is vertical at Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. | Credit: SpaceX; NASA
Spaceflight Now reported that NASA “says it plans to buy five more crew rotation missions on SpaceX’s fleet of Dragon spaceships, bringing SpaceX’s contract with the space agency to 14 operational astronaut launches, likely enough to keep the International Space Station staffed through 2030.” SpaceX and The Boeing Company are to alternate NASA astronaut missions “every six months once the agency certifies Boeing’s Starliner capsule for the job.”
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