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"Through an open competition for funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, NASA has awarded Space Act Agreements to Blue Origin of Kent, Wash.; The Boeing Company of Houston; Paragon Space Development Corporation of Tucson, Ariz.; Sierra Nevada Corporation of Louisville, Colo.; and United Launch Alliance of Centennial, Colo. The agreements are for the development of crew concepts and technology demonstrations and investigations for future commercial support of human spaceflight."
Funny. The former CEO of a company suggests that the US change its fifty year old policy and go commercial and then his former company gets a contract to do exactly that. Not surprising, just funny.
We have to remember that commercial companies' overwhelming reason for existing is ... to make a profit, and make that profit as large as possible.
Includes that very cool Sierra Nevada/SpaceDev HL-20 lifting body spacecraft. At lease one non-capsule approach is in there!
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| February 2, 2010 1:21 AM
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@The Rat: Would you care to elaborate on your baseless attack on Norm Augustine? You know, even ignoring the fact that he worked for Lockheed Martin, not Boeing.
replied to comment from Sherlock
| February 2, 2010 10:00 AM
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to make a profit, and make that profit as large as possible.
That is a feature, not a bug.
Fortunately we have visionaries like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Richard Branson who are focused and opening the frontier for everyone while generating wealth in the self-sustaining process.
NASA will help jump start human spaceflight economy and will reap the long term benefit of affordable, frequent crewed access to space.
When are the studies supposed to be complete? I couldn't find any mention of this.
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