NASA Signs up SpaceX for 3 More Commercial Flights to ISS Amid Boeing’s Starliner Delays

NASA Signs up SpaceX for 3 More Commercial Flights to ISS Amid Boeing’s Starliner Delays
An illuminated monument of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket on Hawthorne Blvd in Hawthorne, Calif., on Nov. 18, 2021. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images
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Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk’s SpaceX has secured three more commercial crew flights to the International Space Station as part of its contract with NASA, the U.S. space agency said on Friday.

The additional crew flights would allow the U.S. space agency NASA to maintain an uninterrupted human access to the space station every now and then.