NASA and its international partners have named four astronauts to crew a SpaceX mission to the International Space Station in spring 2021. This will allow NASA to 'effectively double the amount of science that can be conducted in space,' the agency says.
The crew, all veterans of previous ISS missions, will include Akihiko Hoshide with Japan's JAXA space agency, Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency and NASA's Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur — who two months ago watched her husband Robert Behnken co-pilot the first-ever crewed flight of SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule.
Read MoreNASA astronauts on historic SpaceX mission aiming for August 2 returnNASA has waited for years to regain the ability to fly its own astronauts to and from the space station. After the Shuttle program ended, the space agency had to rely on Russia's Soyuz vehicles to ferry NASA crews to the ISS, and the United States has paid Russia as much as $90 million per seat for those trips.
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