Boeing is finally almost ready to send humans to the space station in its new capsule.

So what could that mean for NASA?

If something were to happen to say SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket, that could possibly ground the crew.

So NASA really wants to have these redundant crews going back and forth.

It's Friday, May 10th, and it's also Science Friday.

I'm Cyfry producer, D. Petersmith.

NASA's been mainly relying on Russia to get astronauts and supplies to the International Space

Station since 2011, but eventually it wants to rely on private companies to get there.

SpaceX has helped out with that, and after years of delays, Boeing is set to launch its first

crude mission next week.

But why is it taken Boeing so long?

But first, here's guest host Sophie Bushwick discussing the biggest news in science this week.

Researchers this week announced a landmark discovery.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, they discovered an atmosphere around a rocky, Earth-like planet, a first for astronomers.

Here to explain what this means for the future of exoplanet exploration, and what a distant world could tell us about Earth's past is Jason Dyn, climate editor at Atmos. Welcome to Science

Friday. Thanks for having me. So tell us about this exoplanet discovery. Why is this a big deal?

Yeah, so this is thanks to new data from the James Webb Telescope, and they discovered that this

planet named 55 Cancary E has an atmosphere.

So this is a rocky exoplanet.

And it's the first time that a rocky exoplanet has been found with an atmosphere.

So it's a pretty huge milestone.

The planet is about 41 light years away.

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