Orbital Urges NASA To Hold Orion Lifeboat Competition

摘要

An Orbital Sciences Corp. executive told a Capitol Hill audience June 24 that the contract for the space station crew lifeboatrnNASA has been directed to build should be put out for bid rather than assigned to Lockheed Martin without a competition.rnNASA Administrator Charles Bolden told Congress in May the agency expects to spend roughly $4.5 billion on a crew lifeboat based on the Orion capsule Lockheed Martin Space Systems of Denver has been designing since 2005 to fly astronauts on Moon missions President Barack Obama intends to shelve.