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SpaceX Ends Production of Crew Dragon

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SpaceX Ends Production of Crew Dragon, America’s Only Human-Rated Spacecraft

http://www.thedrive.com/news/44975/spacex-ends-production-of-crew-dragon-americas-only-human-rated-spacecraft

Mar 29, 2022
SpaceX has had a variety of struggles and successes since its inception 20 years ago, but one of its most resounding victories has been the successful development and flights of its manned space capsule, the Crew Dragon. The Crew Dragon capsule line has already completed four successful manned missions and is currently in orbit on its fifth manned flight. While the capsules are reusable and will continue to see service in coming years, SpaceX has decided to end production of the capsule after the fourth vehicle's production, according to a report from Reuters.

The Crew Dragon's importance to NASA is hard to understate, as it is the only human-approved, low-earth-orbit-transport that the U.S. currently has access to launch from its own soil. For nearly a decade after the discontinuation of the Shuttle program, NASA's only option to ferry astronauts to and from the International Space Station were Russian Soyuz rockets launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, which is leased to Russia through 2050. As Russia's space agency Roscosmos increasingly joins the saber-rattling of the Russian government at large, having a domestic option to carry American astronauts back and forth to the ISS is not just a point of national pride, it's prudent.

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Note : The 'Crew Dragon' is re-usable. Space-X could resurrect the assembly line for them. And there is a "The Crew Dragon's successor, SpaceX's Starship," under development.

And, from what I've been reading Russia's 'Roscosmos' might be in trouble.

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