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...NASA has given SpaceX the thumbs up to become the first company in its Commercial Crew program to send humans into space.
...The race between SpaceX and Boeing, which had hoped its Starliner spacecraft would be the first to send humans to space from American soil in roughly a decade, is nearing its end.
...Being able to send US astronauts to the space station without relying on seats aboard Russian rockets has been a major goal for NASA, and it hired both Boeing and SpaceX to come up with crewed spacecraft capable of filling that need.
...Early on, most analysts assumed Boeing would be the first to get the all-clear from NASA to send humans to space.
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