NASA Expands SpaceX Partnership With $950M Contract for Three More Crew Missions

In the ongoing story of humanity's reach beyond Earth, NASA has placed a $950 million wager on the proven over the promised — extending SpaceX's mandate to carry astronauts to the International Space Station across three additional missions. The decision arrives not in triumph but in necessity, as Boeing's Starliner remains earthbound, its technical troubles deferring the redundancy NASA had long sought. It is a moment that reveals how fragile the architecture of ambition can be when one pillar fails to hold, and how institutions, like people, must sometimes choose the path that works over the