• BastingChemina@slrpnk.net
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    7 个月前

    I don’t know where you found this number, the commercial crew contract was awarded by NASA in September 2014 to SpaceX and Boeing (Boeing getting twice the amount of money than SpaceX). It was expected that two crew capsule would be certified by NASA in 2017.

    SpaceX only certified the capsule Crew Dragon with a crewed launch in 2020, so 3 years delay. In the mean time NASA is still waiting for Boeing to do its first crewed Starliner launch.

    There is plenty of reason to hate Musk but people at SpaceX did accomplish great things.

    Without SpaceX NASA would still be relying on Soyuz to send astronauts to the ISS.