The contract will run through 2030 and makes SpaceX over $4.9 billion in total.
You haven't seen the tail end of SpaceX launches to the International Space Station quite yet.
NASA awarded the Elon Musk-founded company a $1.4 billion contract to send five more astronaut missions to the ISS, perThe contract, part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Transportation Capability , runs through 2030 and brings the total value of the signed agreement with SpaceX to over $4.9 billion. The contract includes ground, launch, in-orbit, and return and recovery operations, cargo transportation for each mission, and a lifeboat capability while docked to the International Space Station.The deal cements a long future between SpaceX and NASA, as they work closely together to launch astronauts to and from the ISS. The contract tasks SpaceX with launching five more crew missions to the ISS – from Crew-10 to Crew-14 – and "allows NASA to maintain an uninterrupted U.S.
The two agencies first penned a deal back in 2014. At the time, they agreed to combine forces for six crewed launches at a contractual amount of $2.6 billion,
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