The International Space Station orbits Earth roughly every 90 minutes, yet for years no American spacecraft could reach it — a gap a single private company stepped in to close - Space Daily

When the Space Shuttle retired in July 2011, the United States lost the ability to reach the very space station it had built — and for nearly nine years, American astronauts hitched rides on Russian Soyuz capsules at up to $90 million per seat. Then a private…