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Sleepover party Elon Musk's SpaceX has established itself as NASA's favoured transportation provider under the Commercial Crew Program, as the agency waits on Boeing's troubled Starliner capsule to carry out key tests. Both companies have multibillion dollar contracts with NASA. SpaceX's first crewed test flight in May 2020 ended nine years of American reliance on Russian rockets for rides to the ISS following the demise of the Space Shuttle programme. The four astronauts will overlap for four days with the crew of Crew-1 before that team returns from its six-month mission. With three Russian...

This NASA photo released April 21, 2021 shows a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft onboard seen on the launch pad at Launch Complex 39A as preparations continue for the Crew-2 mission, on April 20, 2021 Photograph:( AFP ) Story highlights The Crew-2 mission will carry four astronauts in the second routine taxi ride by SpaceX to ISS since the United States resumed crewed space flight, and the first with a European A crewed SpaceX mission to International Space Station...