NASA: 2 private ship contracts

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NASA: 2 private ship contracts

4 February 2007, 18:02

NASA Signs Support Agreements With Two Private Spaceflight Firms

http://www.space.com/news/070201_nasa_spaceact.html

NASA has agreed to help support a pair of private spaceflight companies as they develop competing designs for vehicles that could one day ferry astronauts and cargo into orbit.

No funding, but full tech support for t/Space's CXV (heavy Rutan involvement) and an AirLaunch booster;

and Canada's PlanetSpace Silver Dart (based on USAF's FDL-7) & launched on a Soyuz derived NOVA booster. First test flight ~December '07;

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