SpaceX says they are not going to be building new vehicles for their crew Dragon capsule. The spacecraft company uses to take humans to and from the International Space Station. SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell said, We are finishing our final [capsule], but we still are manufacturing components because we’ll be refurbishing” after each flight the spacecraft goes through a refurbishment process in Florida, where certain hardware is tweaked or swapped out to make the vehicle flight-ready again.

SpaceX previously developed the crew dragon for NASA’s commercial crew program to ferry astronauts to and from the ISS. In that program, SpaceX launched four crews of NASA astronauts to the International Space Station on the Crew Dragon. The company has plenty of future trips planned for the four Crew Dragons, each of which has been named by their first astronaut crews: Endeavour, Resilience, Endurance, and Freedom.

Almost in a week, a commercial space station company, Axiom, is launching a crew of four private astronauts on a Crew Dragon to the space station for a 10-day-long trip. SpaceX still has the contract with NASA to launch cruises to the ISS every 6 months, then bring them back home.

Although SpaceX paused production of the crew Dragon, plenty of other resources are being poured into the development of the new Starship rocket, A massive vehicle designed to carry people and cargo to deep space destinations like the Moon and Mars. SpaceX can always restart Crew Dragon production if necessary.