NASA Awards SpaceX Three Crew Flights To Space Station
NASA extended its commercial crew contract with Space Exploration Technologies Corp (SpaceX), adding three crewed Dragon flights to the International Space Station through 2030. These flights are worth up to $946 million upon completion.
This extension brings SpaceX's total under the Commercial Crew Transportation Capability contract to 17 operational missions. NASA stated that this move ensures "maintain[ing] access to the space station with two unique commercial crew industry partners."
Under the full contract, SpaceX will have earned $5.92 billion from NASA.
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