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spacedaily.com 15/06/2026

NASA still has no American-built way to reach the International Space Station except SpaceX's Dragon capsule — a dependency that has lasted years and shows no sign of ending soon

Since the Space Shuttle retired in 2011, NASA has rebuilt American crewed access to the International Space Station — but only through SpaceX's Crew Dragon. With Boeing's Starliner still grounded after its 2024 test flight, that single-supplier depen
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spacedaily.com 15/06/2026

The International Space Station orbits Earth roughly every 90 minutes, yet for years no American spacecraft could reach it — a gap a single private company stepped in to close

When the Space Shuttle retired in July 2011, the United States lost the ability to reach the very space station it had built — and for nearly nine years, American astronauts hitched rides on Russian Soyuz capsules at up to $90 million per seat. Then
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starlab-space.com 17/03/2026

Delta Biosciences Reserves Utilization Space in the Starlab Space Station to Advance Applied Life Sciences Research in Microgravity

Delta Biosciences will provide space-as-a-service life-science experimentation capabilities aboard Starlab, supporting chemical stability research, biological studies and medical technology validation in low Earth orbit. HOUSTON – March 17, 2026 – St