NASA has announced they will be heading back into space. They had been relying on Russian spacecraft for missions to the International Space Stations but they will have their own program again. Here is the link to the Press Release.
NASA has contracted with both Boeing and SpaceX. American Astronauts will being using the CST-100 and Crew Dragon spacecraft. The goal is for change to the CST-100 and Crew Dragon spacecrafts in 2017.
“From day one, the Obama Administration made clear that the greatest nation on Earth should not be dependent on other nations to get into space,” NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden said at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. “Thanks to the leadership of President Obama, the hard work of our NASA and industry teams, and support from Congress, today we are one step closer to launching our astronauts from U.S. soil on American spacecraft and ending the nation’s sole reliance on Russia by 2017. Turning over low-Earth orbit transportation to private industry will also allow NASA to focus on an even more ambitious mission – sending humans to Mars.”
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