NASA chose three aerospace companies to continue working over the next two years on commercial spaceships intended to carry astronauts to the International Space Station by 2016. The space agency awarded Boeing’s [BA] Houston operation, Space X of Hawthorne, Calif., and Sierra Nevada Corp. of Louisville, Colo. so-called Commercial Crew Integrated Capability (CCiCap) contracts worth more than a combined $1.1 billion to design and develop the spacecraft that are intended to take the place of NASA’s now-retired space shuttle. The agency intends…
NASA Taps 3 Firms to Continue Commercial Spacecraft Development
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