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SpaceX Readies Astronauts for America’s Return to Space
We know who the next U.S. space travelers are. Now comes the hard part.
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It’s starting to feel real. Boeing Co. and Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. have contracts with NASA to fly astronauts to the International Space Station as part of what’s known as the Commercial Crew Program. Seven years after the end of the space shuttle program, NASA introduced the astronauts who will fly with both companies.
Now comes the hard part.