Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are preparing for their return journey on the Crew-9 Dragon spacecraft after initially arriving via the Boeing Starliner. They, along with newcomers Nick Hague and Aleksandr Gorbunov,

As part of its Commercial Crew program, NASA picked two private companies to develop spacecraft capable of sending astronauts to the International Space Station: SpaceX and Boeing. While SpaceX's Crew Dragon quickly became a tour de force,

This excerpt describes a fateful meeting 10 years ago at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC, where the space agency's leaders met to decide which companies should be awarded billions of dollars to launch astronauts into orbit.