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In September 2014, NASA chose SpaceX and Boeing as the two companies that would be funded to develop systems to transport U.S. crews to and from the ISS. [256] SpaceX won $2.6 billion to complete and certify Dragon 2 by 2017. The contracts called for at least one crewed flight test with at least one NASA astronaut aboard.
NASA's budget peaked in 1964–66 when it consumed roughly 4% of all federal spending. The agency was building up to the first Moon landing and the Apollo program was a top national priority, consuming more than half of NASA's budget and driving NASA's workforce to more than 34,000 employees and 375,000 contractors from industry and academia. [20]
In 2014, NASA awarded Boeing a US$4.2 billion fixed-price contract to develop and operate Starliner, while SpaceX received $2.6 billion to develop and operate Crew Dragon. By February 2025, Boeing's effort had exceeded its budget by at least $2 billion.
NASA's 2016 budget would dedicate $1.947 billion of its total funds to the official study of earth. The version in Congress would chop that allotment down to $1.45 billion. NASA would probably ...
Elon Musk greets U.S. President-elect Donald Trump as he arrives to attend a viewing of the launch of the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Starship rocket on November 19, 2024 in Brownsville, Texas.
NASA gave Boeing, a longtime space contractor, more than $4 billion to develop the capsule, while SpaceX got $2.6 billion. SpaceX already was delivering supplies to the space station, and merely ...
NASA's final report on the program considered it a success and a model for future public-private collaboration [1]. Compared to traditional cost-plus contracts employed by NASA, such as the $12 billion contract for the Orion spacecraft , the $800 million COTS investment resulted in "two new U.S. medium-class launch vehicles and two automated ...
[120] [121] After earlier plans of SpaceX to use new capsules for every crewed flight for NASA [122] both agreed to reuse Crew Dragon capsules for NASA flights. [123] [124] In 2022, SpaceX stated that a capsule can be reused up to fifteen times. [125] Crew Dragon spacecraft can spend up to a week in free flight without being docked to the ISS ...