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NASA astronauts, from left, Jessica Watkins, Robert Hines, Kjell Lindgren, and European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti are seen inside the SpaceX Crew Dragon Freedom spacecraft onboard the SpaceX recovery ship Megan shortly after having landed in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Jacksonville, Fla., on Oct. 14, 2022.  

NASA astronauts, from left, Jessica Watkins, Robert Hines, Kjell Lindgren, and European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti are seen inside the SpaceX Crew Dragon Freedom spacecraft onboard the SpaceX recovery ship Megan shortly after having landed in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Jacksonville, Fla., on Oct. 14, 2022.   (Bill Ingalls/NASA/Getty Images/TNS)

(Tribune News Service) — Before summer, 14 more humans could launch from U.S. soil as SpaceX has three missions set to lift off from Kennedy Space Center on Crew Dragons while Boeing looks to send its CST-100 Starliner up to the International Space Station for the first time with people on board.

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