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Why Elon Musk’s SpaceX is launching astronauts for Nasa – BBC News
Why is SpaceX carrying astronauts to the space station and back for Nasa?
By Paul RinconScience editor, BBC News website
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is flying people to and from the International Space Station (ISS), using the Crew Dragon vehicle. But why is Nasa paying a private company to launch its astronauts?
To understand the background to the Crew Dragon missions, we need to go back almost 20 years to a tragic accident.
On 1 February 2003, the space shuttle Columbia broke apart while re-entering the Earth’s atmosphere. All seven astronauts aboard perished in the disaster.
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