SpaceX will cease producing new Crew Dragon craft after it finishes manufacturing its fourth and remaining capsule, based on . After confirming the information, Elon Musk’s personal house agency advised the outlet it could proceed to provide elements for the spacecraft and that it could retain its capability to fabricate extra Crew Dragon capsules ought to one thing come up.

Given the reusable nature of the Crew Dragon, it was at all times assumed SpaceX would produce a restricted variety of the spacecraft, however earlier than at the moment it wasn’t recognized simply what number of capsules the corporate deliberate to make earlier than shifting on to different initiatives.

Since its , Crew Dragon has flown 5 crews to house, together with the first-ever one on the finish of final yr. As a part of its ongoing Commercial Crew program, NASA had deliberate to make use of the Space X capsule to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station throughout six separate missions, however not too long ago it could use the craft for as many as three extra flights because of delays related to Boeing’s .

The finish of Crew Dragon manufacturing comes as SpaceX seems to get its next-generation Starship reusable heavy rocket licensed and operational. The spacecraft is a key piece in all of SpaceX’s plans involving and Mars. After a handful of delays, Elon Musk not too long ago the corporate hoped to conduct Starship’s first orbital take a look at in May.