Securing the High Frontier: NASA, Boeing, and the High-Stakes Calculus of Post-Dragon Low-Earth Orbit Access
Executive Overview As the international space community looks toward the twilight of the current decade, NASA faces a monumental strategic crossroads. The planned retirement of SpaceX’s venerable Dragon spacecraft—slated for on or before 2030—threatens to sever the primary umbilical cord connecting American astronauts to the cosmos. With the International Space Station (ISS) inching toward a…
