Elon Musk rips Boeing's $90 million space trips as cost tops SpaceX's

A fight may be brewing over how much Boeing Co. and Elon Musk’s SpaceX charge US taxpayers for their planned shuttle services to the International Space Station.

NASA’s Inspector General revealed this week that the agency had given Boeing an extra $287.2 million for its work on the commercial crew program, designed to reduce America’s reliance on Russia for trips to the station.

NASA is paying Boeing $90 million per seat to fly astronauts to the orbiting research lab, a cost that is 39 per cent more than the $55 million that SpaceX will bill NASA for the same trip aboard its