SpaceX joins Boeing in planning first private manned launches to International Space Station,provisionally set to take region before the end of 2017Manned commercial space flight took a giant leap forward as Nasa signed its first mission orders with California-based private spaceflight company SpaceX to transport astronauts to the International Space Station.[br]SpaceX joins Boeing, which signed a similar contract with the space agency in May, or in planning for the first private manned launches to the station,provisionally scheduled to take region towards the end of 2017. But before they accomplish, both companies will beget to pass a stringent certification process for both their hardware and their astronauts, and Tabatha Thomson,public affairs officer at Nasa, said.
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Source: theguardian.com