The number of U.S.-based orbital launches is expected to reach its highest level in 15 years in 2024, with seven missions planned to place 26 humans into orbit. This marks the highest number of crew launching from the Space Coast since 2009.
The business of sending humans into space has not yet risen to the levels seen during the space shuttle program, but 2024 could see the most U.S. -based orbital launches in 15 years. There are seven missions slated from either Kennedy Space Center or Cape Canaveral Space Force Station that look to place 26 humans into orbit. It’s the highest number of crew launching from the Space Coast since 2009. That year saw five shuttle launches with 35 humans on board.
The shuttle era finished with only three launches in 2010 and 2011 before its retirement, and U.S.-based launches did not happen again until the successful May 2020 liftoff of SpaceX’s Demo-2 mission flying the Crew Dragon Endeavour to the International Space Station with humans on board for the first tim
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