Nasa Orders Five More Astronaut Missions From Musk S Spacex In 1.4 Billion Deal

Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comSign up WASHINGTON, Aug 31 (Reuters) – 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 order contract, the U.S. space agency said on Wednesday, taking its total missions company with a contract for a Crew Dragon Astronaut Capsule at 14. The latest boost to SpaceX’s NASA contract is part of the agency’s effort to ensure a steady flow of astronaut flights to the space station as Boeing ( BA.N ), the other company with a similar crew contract, struggles to complete development of the Space 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. Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comSign up 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. Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comSign up Report by Joey Roulette. edited by Richard Pullin Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comSign up WASHINGTON, Aug 31 (Reuters) – 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 order contract, the U.S. space agency said on Wednesday, taking its total missions company with a contract for a Crew Dragon Astronaut Capsule at 14. The latest boost to SpaceX’s NASA contract is part of the agency’s effort to ensure a steady flow of astronaut flights to the space station as Boeing ( BA.N ), the other company with a similar crew contract, struggles to complete development of the Space 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. Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comSign up 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. Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comSign up Report by Joey Roulette. edited by Richard Pullin Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comSign up WASHINGTON, Aug 31 (Reuters) – 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 order contract, the U.S. space agency said on Wednesday, taking its total missions company with a contract for a Crew Dragon Astronaut Capsule at 14. The latest boost to SpaceX’s NASA contract is part of the agency’s effort to ensure a steady flow of astronaut flights to the space station as Boeing ( BA.N ), the other company with a similar crew contract, struggles to complete development of the Space 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. Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comSign up 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. Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comSign up Report by Joey Roulette. edited by Richard Pullin Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comSign up WASHINGTON, Aug 31 (Reuters) – 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 order contract, the U.S. space agency said on Wednesday, taking its total missions company with a contract for a Crew Dragon Astronaut Capsule at 14. The latest boost to SpaceX’s NASA contract is part of the agency’s effort to ensure a steady flow of astronaut flights to the space station as Boeing ( BA.N ), the other company with a similar crew contract, struggles to complete development of the Space 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. Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comSign up 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. Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comSign up Report by Joey Roulette. edited by Richard Pullin Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.