NASA Partners With Boeing And SpaceX To Send Astronauts Up In Space Taxis
September 16, 2014 at 17:23 PM EDT
NASA has announced a deal with SpaceX and Boeing to build space taxis to shuttle astronauts to the International Space Station. This deal will end NASA’s reliance on expensive Russian crew transport by 2017. The cost was a whopping $71 million per seat. However, the rising tensions in Ukraine may have also been a factor in the push for U.S. contracts. Read More