Companies get go ahead for space taxis

Subject: Companies get go ahead for space taxis Sat Aug 04, 2012 3:41 am

NASA has given a total of $1.06 billion to three companies to develop commercial spaceships to carry astronauts into space within the next five years.

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Sierra Nevada Corporation, SpaceX and Boeing were given the green-light from NASA for development of the craft in the next phase of a program aimed to revive the commercial space industry and allow NASA to focus on other priorities.

Boeing received $US460 million, SpaceX $US440 million and Sierra Nevada $US212.5 million. Boeing and SpaceX are developing crew capsules, while Sierra Nevada's design is for a winged plane-style craft.

'Today, we are announcing another critical step toward launching our astronauts from US soil on space systems built by American companies,' NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said. 'We have selected three companies that will help keep us on track to end the outsourcing of human spaceflight and create high-paying jobs in Florida and elsewhere across the country.'

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Companies get go ahead for space taxis

Companies get go ahead for space taxis

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