NASA, SpaceX set May 27 as target date for first crew launch
> American astronauts on American rockets from American soil
Jim Bridenstine<p>Jim Bridenstine really knows how to talk politics. I must say I very impressed with his tenure so far, the NASA Administrator is not really all that powerful of a position but given how much opposition there was to him being a Trump selection he does do well.<p>This is such a vital step to make LEO a commercial domain. NASA is spending way to much money on LEO and to make any moon/mars future possible that needs to be commercial. NASA only want to launch max. 4 people per ship, but it can take 7. So the price could really be cheap pretty cheap to allow a fair amount of non-NASA groups to send up people.<p>Axiom Space got the contract extending the ISS and a more commercial ISS could operate more efficiently in the longer run.<p>Eventually, with the cost of Cargo Space transportation coming down, we could actually build Space Stations in Space and make them way bigger.