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Mike Wehner
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SpaceX is already the clear winner of the Commercial Crew Program race, having delivered its Crew Dragon spacecraft to NASA well ahead of its competitor, Boeing, which has yet to even complete an uncrewed mission to the ISS. Now, with a couple of crewed launches already under its belt, the company is poised to do another one, and this time it's going to chalk up a few "firsts" along the way.
A press release reveals that next week's planned flight to the International Space Station will be handled by a used SpaceX Falcon 9 and a used Crew Dragon capsule. This is the first time that both pieces of fight-proven hardware will be used for a crewed launch, and since SpaceX's entire business model depends on the ability to refurbish and reuse its hardware over and over, a crewed launch on used hardware is a very big deal.
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The next SpaceX NASA launch is going to be one for the record books originally appeared on BGR.com on Fri, 16 Apr 2021 at 21:17:04 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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