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NASA orders five new space missions from SpaceX for $1.4 billion.

NASA has tasked SpaceX with organizing five new manned missions to the ISS due to the flight delay of the Boeing Starliner capsule. | Font: POT

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POT ordered SpaceX managing five other missions to send their astronauts to International Space Station (ISS) at the end of the decade. The space agency turned to an aerospace manufacturing company run by a mogul. Elon Musk conduct five new launches, setting a contract worth US$1.4 billion.

According to the agency Reuters, POT entered into this new agreement signed by a billionaire, also the owner Tesla Motors D neurolink for your company to arrange five more trips to international space stationbringing the total number of contracted missions to 14. SpaceX for your astronaut capsule Crew Dragon.

NASA and SpaceX to expand cooperation

The most recent expansion of the contract between SpaceX and POT responds to the desire of the space agency to guarantee a permanent record of astronaut flights to the ISS, especially now that Boeing – Another aerospace manufacturing company, with which it has a similar transportation agreement, is having difficulty completing a new launch of its space capsule. Starliner.

” POT allowed to maintain uninterrupted operation USA for human space station access by 2030 with two unique partners from the commercial crew industry.”the space agency said in a statement.

SpaceX D Boeingtwo partners in commercial crewing, entered into multi-million dollar contracts with POT in 2014 to develop, test and regularly fly space capsules to send astronauts into space. ISS and back, an orbital research laboratory that has housed international crews of astronauts for more than two decades.

NASA and the status of its contracts with SpaceX and Boeing

Since receiving the certificate in 2020 SpaceX you used a reusable capsule Crew Dragon successfully completed about five missions with a crew on international space stationthereby becoming the first private company to send humans into Earth orbit and revive the manned spaceflight program POT which was on hiatus following the cancellation of the ferry program from USA in 2011.

On the other hand, Boeing and his capsule CST-100 Starliner they did not suffer the same fate as takeoff was delayed by software problems and a valve malfunction. The company’s first manned flight has been delayed until February 2023, and the company is aiming for a final pre-flight test mission. POT can confirm that the spacecraft is suitable for regular astronaut flights.

Initially POT ordered six manned sorties from each company, but ordered three more from SpaceX early 2022 due to technical issues with the capsule Boeing.

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