NASA places order with Boeing for manned ISS flights

[PriyankaDhariwal]

NASA has placed an order with Boeing for the first operational mission to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station in 2017. The Commercial Crew Programme ordered its first crew rotation mission from The Boeing Company, NASA said. SpaceX, which successfully performed a pad abort test of its flight vehicle earlier this month, is expected to receive its first order later this year.