I missed this report that SpaceX has decided to retire the Crew Dragon spacecraft, the only American spacecraft capable of ferrying astronauts to/from the ISS; SpaceX wants to focus its energy on Starship (and orbital data centers)
NASA is now looking at revving up the Boeing Starliner program, providing additional funding to fix some of its problems.
So much for commercialization of space technology.
https://gizmodo.com/spacex-is-retiring-crew-dragon-forcing-nasa-to-bet-big-on-boeings-troubled-starliner-2000814072
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