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Tuesday, September 20, 2011

NASA MOVES STEP CLOSER TO SPACE TAXIS

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NASA hopes some U.S. companies will soon be giving the Russians a run for their money to fly astronauts to the International Space Station.

Under a new draft solicitation unveiled Monday, the U.S. government is planning to buttress private space efforts to the tune of $1.6 billion beginning in July.

The agency intends to select at least two, and possibly more, candidate space taxis for funding, part of an ongoing effort to hand over crew transportation services to the space station to commercial providers. Since the space shuttles were retired this summer, Russia has a monopoly on station crew ferry flights, a service that costs more than $50 million per person.

Read More: http://news.discovery.com/space/nasa-moves-step-closer-to-space-taxis-110920.html

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