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Brett Tingley

NASA, SpaceX looking to extend lifespan of Crew Dragon spacecraft to 15 flights

A white cone-shaped spacecraft .

NASA and SpaceX are looking to extend the number of flights that each Crew Dragon capsule can make, from five to 15.

On May 30, 2020, Crew Dragon became the first American spacecraft to carry astronauts to orbit since the space shuttle was retired in 2011, and the first private spacecraft to reach the International Space Station. Since then, Crew Dragon vehicles have flown 49 different astronauts (one of them twice) to space on 13 missions, nine of them for NASA and four of them private.

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