NASA Awards $ 270 million to SpaceX and other commercial space flight ventures

By Amar toor posted Apr 19 2011 4:54 PM NASA has his seal of approval (and money) for SpaceX and three other private companies, in the framework of the initiative of the commercial crew development (CCDev2)-a program developed to the development of U.S. commercial space given to spur Wheelback. The Agency a total of 270 million $ on the four lucky winners, Boeing received $ 92.3 million to help develop its CST-100 capsule design and the Sierra Nevada Corporation awarded 80 million US dollars, which go in the direction of his shuttle-like dream chaser craft anchorage. The smallest price ($ 22 million) went to Jeff Bezos' origin, which is allegedly create a cone shaped craft able crew members into the abyss, blue. And then, of course, it's cool $75 million NASA SpaceX, who is a proud recipient funds. The California based company has already successfully capsule its Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon, and works currently on the Falcon schwere-- a 22-story crafts announced, as the "world's most powerful rocket." NASA extra dough should SpaceX's projects little boost give, but the money is on improvements in Dragon's crew-carrying capacity, carried out in the next year. If all goes well, we can see one of these companies an intergalactic 'taxi'-to start the service by the middle of the Decade. Saddle up!

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