NASA is looking to partner with SpaceX five more times in the coming months, as they bought several new spaceflights for future missions and said that there is a contract with the company. SpaceX is known for its reliability in the different fields and ventures it focuses on, but what made it more famous is its Commercial Crew mission successes.
NASA, SpaceX: Five More Missions for Astronaut Travel to ISS
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A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft sits atop a Falcon 9 rocket on launch Pad 39A ahead of the scheduled Axiom-1 launch on April 7, 2022 at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
NASA announced that new Commercial Crew missions are coming soon via its blog post. They will come from SpaceX aboard the company's Dragon spacecraft to transport astronauts to the International Space Station. There would be five more missions that SpaceX will focus on to bring using its Dragon spacecraft to transport crew and cargo.
There are no details regarding the contract's total price, as NASA did not disclose how much it paid for the five new missions that it ordered from SpaceX for the Commercial Crew program. This new contract adds to the last payment made by NASA to SpaceX for the recent $3.5 billion add-ons earlier this year for three additional flights.
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SpaceX Crew Dragon Missions are Coming Soon
Space reports that Crew Dragon missions are coming soon, and it would focus on Crew-10 to Crew-14 flights that will come from the only American institution that carries NASA astronauts towards the ISS. Dragon missions are coming back again, and it goes atop the Falcon 9 rocket to bring it outside the Earth before its detaching.
SpaceX and NASA Missions
In 2020 and 2021, there were many missions that SpaceX focused on that it fulfilled for NASA to bring its astronauts towards the international Space Station, focusing on the many ventures that the space agency is trying to achieve.
One of these missions is with the Crew-1 that first boarded the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and went for the ISS to focus on their mission as set out by NASA. SpaceX continuously did these flights as its partner, Boeing's Starliner, could not complete its tet in time to bring the astronauts as part of their contracts with NASA.
SpaceX is one renowned company for its spaceflights and reusability in their rockets and ships that they use to transport cargo and the astronauts included in the mission.
SpaceX and NASA have worked together on multiple occasions already, and the missions they did brought massive advancements to the world. The commercialization of space is something that not all agree with. Private companies like SpaceX, Arianespace, Boeing, Blue Origin, and more get a chance to dictate their track and ventures on the space landscape.
The only thing is that NASA prefers SpaceX's technology, so it gets to bring its spaceships more often.
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Written by Isaiah Richard
