An announcement most have waited years for. NASA has officially announced the flight assignments for the first crewed test and operational flights of SpaceX’s Dragon and Boeing’s Starliner crew transportation vehicles. The announcements come as the Commercial Crew Program gears up for the uncrewed and crewed test flights of the first commercially developed vehicles that will fly U.S. astronauts to Low Earth Orbit and the International Space Station – marking a new chapter in human space transportation innovation by NASA to the commercial sector.
