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NASA to open safety investigations into SpaceX, Boeing

By Joe Williams
Published November 20, 2018 9:12pm ET
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NASA to open safety investigations into SpaceX, Boeing
SpaceX chief engineer Elon Musk, second from left, talks to the media with NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, left, and NASA astronauts crew Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken, right, in front of the Crew Dragon spacecraft, about the progress to fly astronauts to and from the International Space Station, from American soil, as part of the agency’s commercial crew program at SpaceX headquarters, in Hawthorne, Calif., Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019.

NASA is set to launch a safety review of SpaceX and Boeing as part of its billion-dollar contracts with the companies to eventually fly astronauts to the International Space Station.

The reviews, slated to start in 2019, will examine “everything and anything that could impact safety,” William Gerstenmaier, NASA’s associate administrator for human exploration, told The Washington Post.

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