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This month, the vehicle will lift off from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, with twoNASAastronauts on board, the culmination of a troubled decade of development..
Nearly a decade ago, in September 2014, NASA chose two companiesBoeing and Elon Musks SpaceXto design a new class of private spacecraft that could transport humans to low Earth orbit in the wake of the Space Shuttles retirement in 2011, ending the nations sole reliance on Russia to reach the station, NASA administrator Charlie Bolden said at the time...
In 2020, its Crew Dragon spacecraft launched its first humans to space for NASA, and it has since carried nearly 50 peopleboth government astronauts and paying customers, such as the US billionaire Jared Isaacmaninto space..
Boeing is contracted with NASA to launch Starliner six times to the ISS after this test mission, each time carrying four or five astronauts along with cargo for six-month stays aboard the station..
NASA and the Russian space agency, Roscosmos, continue to cooperate on the ISS program, including sharing seats between Russias Soyuz vehicle, Crew Dragon, and now Starliner, despite the embittered political situation between the two nations...
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