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+-   NASA awards space cargo grant.. Space FedEx soon-> on Thursday February 21 2008, @12:28AM pha7boy

Submitted by pha7boy on Thursday February 21 2008, @12:28AM
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pha7boy writes "NASA has made a recent award of 171 million dollars to Orbital Sciences Corp. of Virginia in order to aid the company in developing a feasable space cargo delivery service.

The U.S. space agency intends to hold an open competition in the years ahead for actual space station cargo-delivery contracts, but Orbital of Dulles, Va., is one of two companies receiving financial help from NASA to develop their proposed systems. The other is Space Exploration Technologies of El Segundo, Calif.
since the space shuttle is slated to retire in 2010, and relations with the Russians are likely to sour further, developing a cheap, reliable method to deliver cargo and personel in space seems like a major imperative."
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