NASA orders SpaceX to taxi astronauts to the ISS in 2017
Right now, flying to the International Space Station means leaving from Russia, but it won’t always be that way. Today, NASA announced that it officially ordered a crew rotation mission from Elon Musk’s SpaceX, due to launch sometime in 2017. This is actually the second mission order to come out of the space agency’s Commercial Crew Program — the first order being awarded to Boeing back in May — but it’s still not clear which commercial outfit will have the honor of playing taxi for astronauts first.
Source: NASA
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