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SpaceX could hasten NASA's reform

Robert Black Orlando Sentinel

Last updated Friday, December 31, 2010 - 11:23pm

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Early last month, a private company called SpaceX launched an unmanned version of its Dragon capsule into orbit, took it for a few spins around Earth, and then brought it home with a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. The total cost -- including design, manufacture, testing and launch of the company's Falcon 9 rocket and the capsule -- was roughly $800 million.

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More ATK jobs in jeopardy / NASA tells Constellation contractors to immediately cut back work because of spending violations

Robert Black The Orlando Sentinel

Last updated Wednesday, June 9, 2010 - 11:47pm

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In a surprise move, NASA has told the major contractors working on its troubled Constellation moon rocket program that they are in violation of federal spending rules -- and must immediately cut back work by almost $1 billion to get into compliance.

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What to launch? Contractors waffling on Ares; future may be with Delta IV

Robert Black

Last updated Saturday, July 11, 2009 - 11:37pm

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The aerospace giants contracted to help build NASA's next-generation spaceships, including Utah's ATK Space Systems, are quietly hedging their bets and stepping back from the Ares rockets that the agency has staked its future on after the shuttle retires next year.
In recent weeks, Lockheed Martin Corp. and the Boeing Company have reached out to NASA officials, lawmakers and a presidentially appointed panel reviewing America's human spaceflight plan, expressing a willingness to change plans or offering alternatives to the rockets that until recently they strongly advocated.

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