Lark Davis|Sep 19, 2026 07:24
NASA just extended SpaceX's ISS crew contract to $5.92B: 17 crewed missions through 2030.
Bigger picture: SpaceX flew 165 Falcon 9 orbital launches in 2025, about 85% of U.S. orbital flights and more than every other country combined. That's roughly 51% of all global orbital launches and 82% of the commercial launch market. Starlink serves 12M+ customers across 160+ countries. The national security launch manifest is largely theirs too.
The space race never ended. It just got privatized.
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