SpaceX to ISS

Three Americans and a Japanese astronaut were onboard the SpaceX capsule launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida headed for the International Space Station (ISS) in mid-November 2020. The Crew- 1 mission marks a crucial milestone in development of a space industry in which private-sector companies provide business and tourism services in low-earth orbit. Following the retirement of the Space Shuttle in 2011, NASA awarded Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Boeing nearly $7 billion in contracts to build new transport systems to the space station on part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Programme.