NASA awarded a $1.43 billion contract to SpaceX last week to carry astronauts to the International Space Station on five more crewed missions.
It’s the latest win for Elon Musk’s aerospace juggernaut, which started flying cargo to the ISS in 2012 and carried astronauts there in 2020 for the first time.
SpaceX has already launched five crewed flights for NASA to the ISS.
After the contract was announced, NASA is now paying SpaceX $4.9 billion in total for 14 crewed missions to the station.
The company carried tourists to space for the first time last year and has also been routinely sending Starlink satellites into orbit.
