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Might NASA kill the comercial space race?

http://news.discovery.com/space/might-nasa-kill-the-commercial-space-race-120515.html

by janzer • 14 years ago

5 1 14 years ago

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gammarator• 14 years ago

As the article indicates, the headline should be: "Congress might kill the commercial space race." NASA would prefer to continue the competition:

"Ending competition by down-selecting to a sole commercial space company could double the cost of developing a privately built human spaceflight system and it will leave us in the same position we find ourselves today -- having only one option for getting our astronauts to the space station," NASA administrator Charles Bolden told an FAA commercial space advisory committee last week.

Boeing is lobbying hard to legislatively eliminate the competition and keep its cost-plus contracts.

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