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NASA awards space contracts to Boeing and SpaceX
NASA on Tuesday awarded a pair of much-anticipated contracts, worth up to $6.8 billion combined, to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station to Boeing and SpaceX in a deal that would allow the U.S. to launch astronauts into space from U.S. soil for the first time in years. Speaking from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said the contracts set "the stage for what promises to be most exciting chapter in NASA and human space flight...
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America is back in business, baby
U know it!
Love it. I also think it is good to go with more than one company.
But it's unfair that one got twice as much as the other. It should have been split down the middle.
They both had their set prices. Either way it's a big win for everyone since SpaceX gets the extra funding, and as 8mm said, Boeing gets competition.
Great for competition.