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How SpaceX won the race against Boeing to send NASA astronauts to space – CNBC
The launch of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule to the International Space Station marked the first time NASA astronauts took off from U.S. soil since 2011. The event also represented the first time a commercially built spacecraft carried NASA astronauts, an achie…
When NASA started the Commercial Crew Program in 2010, the goal was to get private-sector companies to produce the most cost-effective, innovative and safe way to get astronauts to the International Space Station.
The program was structured as a multi-tiered competition, with companies bidding for NASA contracts to build the space transportation systems under specific parameters set forth by the agency. NASA eventually awarded the contracts to SpaceX and Boeing.
For nearly a decade, SpaceX a…
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