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　　according to reports, NASA (NASA) said on August 31st, according to a new contract order valued at 1.4 billion US dollars, SpaceX will be before 2030. Five more astronaut missions to the International Space Station for NASA, bringing the total number of missions under contract for the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft to 14.

　　SpaceX's latest development with NASA is part of the agency's efforts to ensure stable flights to the space station for astronauts, as Boeing, another company with a similar crew transportation contract, has yet to complete development of its Starliner capsule.

　　The award program "enables NASA to maintain uninterrupted access to the space station for U.S. astronauts through 2030 with two separate commercial industry partners," NASA said in a statement.

　　In 2014, SpaceX and Boeing each won multibillion-dollar NASA contracts to develop, test and launch capsule systems that would help astronauts get to and from the space station. For more than 20 years, it has provided space habitats for international astronaut teams.

　　SpaceX's reusable and reusable Crew Dragon spacecraft has flown five crewed missions for NASA since its crew certification in 2020, when the company became the first private enterprise to put humans into orbit and has a spaceflight in the U.S. After the aircraft program was retired in 2011, NASA's human spaceflight program was restarted.

　　Boeing's CST-100 Starliner capsule, plagued by software glitches and valve malfunctions, aims to deliver its first astronauts in February next year, and the company plans to certify the spacecraft at NASA as capable of regular astronaut flights Before passing the last test task.

　　NASA initially awarded each company six crewed missions, but booked three more with SpaceX in early 2022 amid Boeing's technical woes.