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NASA orders three more crew flights to the space station

Source dated 18 Sept 2026 · Brief by 20 Today
Selected 18 Sept 2026, 23:50 BST · 24-hour selection ended 19 Sept 2026, 23:50 BST

A $946m contract change adds three SpaceX missions to NASA’s programme for transporting crews to the International Space Station.

Conceptual crew capsule above Earth

NASA identifies the missions as Crew-15, Crew-16 and Crew-17, with readiness dates in 2027 and 2028. The package includes related operations and services. These are future contracted missions, not launches that have already taken place.

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Agency contract announcement. The conceptual capsule is not an image of a real mission.

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