NASA, Congress Reach Accord On Commercial Crew Program 137
MarkWhittington writes "NASA and Congress have reached a deal on how to proceed with the commercial crew program that provides government subsidies to pay for the development of private spacecraft. NASA will select two competitors from the current four — SpaceX, Boeing, Blue Origin and Sierra Nevada. A third competitor will be picked for partial funding as a fallback in case both of the main competing companies run into difficulties developing a spacecraft on time and on budget."
Sierra Nevada? (Score:5, Funny)
How is an IPA going to get people into orbit?
Re:Sierra Nevada? (Score:3, Funny)
Lots of thrust?
We have already failed (Score:4, Funny)
pay for the development
It works the same in NASA as it does in software dev: you get what you pay for. If you want results, pay for results. If you pay for development, all you get is lots of development.