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Here be dragons 🐉 As we get ready for the new year, we're continuing to make space travel more reliable and less expensive—with the help of our commercial partners. In 2021, our first SpaceX crew rotation flight to the International Space Station (Crew-1) safely splashed down on Earth after 168 days in orbit, and two more Commercial Crew missions lifted off to open new frontiers on our orbiting laboratory. Next up: Crew-4, currently scheduled to launch in April 2022. In this image, the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft Endeavour is seen departing the ISS on November 8, 2021, with four astronauts from NASA, JAXAJP, and the EuropeanSpaceAgency preparing to return home after their successful six-month Crew-2 mission. Credit: NASA