Does Spacex Work with Nasa

SpaceX is the only American company right now capable of sending astronauts to the International Space Station, NASA said in awarding the company additional flights. The Hawthorne, California-based firm received a sole-source modification to the existing contract between NASA and SpaceX.

Is SpaceX funded by NASA?

NASA announced on Friday that it had awarded a contract to SpaceX for $2.9 billion to use Starship to take astronauts from lunar orbit to the surface of the moon. The contract extends NASA’s trend of relying on private companies to ferry people, cargo and robotic explorers to space.

Why did NASA partner with SpaceX?

In 2014, NASA’s commercial crew program selected SpaceX and Boeing to ferry astronauts to the ISS. Having two companies increased competition, which helped to keep costs low and provided redundancy, increasing the likelihood that NASA would have access to the ISS in case one of the vehicles was grounded.