u. s. aerospace company boeing has launched to new us for notes on admission to the international space station. while here 1st for the company, it's only the 2nd to private firm to do so. office space ex colin baker has more and what this means for the commercial space race to space. a new spacecraft, a new rocket, and a seasoned crew, are headed to the international space station. boeing has waited a long time to send humans into orbit and it joins a very small club in 2010. then us president brock obama promised a bold and risky new idea to transform the nation's 50 year old publicly funded space program into one that relies on private companies for space travel. in order to reach the space station. we will work with a growing array of private companies competing to make getting to space easier and more affordable. 14 years later, the companies in the us space race includes some new startups. and many old titans . boeing is a space veteran. the company was involved in the apollo program half a century ago and was just one of 2 to be awarded the task of transportation under obama's ne