Why It Matters: NASA needs two rides to orbit.
To get to and from the space station, NASA currently relies on SpaceX, the company founded by Elon Musk. SpaceX carried its first team of astronauts to orbit in May 2020, aboard its Crew Dragon capsule, and has since lifted eight more crews to the space station.
But NASA has also hired Boeing to build a capsule, so that one can…
This story from nytimes.com was posted on 2023-06-02 by @frostspark.