Commercial Resupply Services (
CRS) are a series of contracts awarded by
NASA from 2008–2016 for delivery of cargo and supplies to the
International Space Station (ISS) on commercially operated spacecraft. The first CRS contracts were signed in 2008 and awarded $1.6 billion to
SpaceX for 12 cargo transport missions and $1.9 billion to
Orbital Sciences for 8 missions, covering deliveries to 2016. In 2015,
NASA extended the Phase 1 contracts by ordering an additional three resupply flights from
SpaceX and one from
Orbital Sciences. The second phase of contracts, solicited and proposed in 2014, known as
CRS2 will cover transport flights from 2019 until 2024.