NASA Gives Grant for Cargo Spaceship
posted 7:03 pm Tue February 19, 2008 - LOS ANGELES
NASA has picked a veteran aerospace company to develop a new commercial spaceship capable of flying cargo to the international space station.The announcement Tuesday comes four months after the space agency reopened bidding after an original winner failed to secure enough private financing for its project. NASA is giving $170 million to Virginia-based Orbital Sciences Corp., which makes small rockets and small systems.
The only other company to receive any of nearly $500 million NASA set aside in 2006 to promote development of private spacecraft is SpaceX, a startup based in Hawthorne.
The only other company to receive any of nearly $500 million NASA set aside in 2006 to promote development of private spacecraft is SpaceX, a startup based in Hawthorne.
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