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Said program managers at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA),the administration was looking for at least two U.S. companies to design and manufacture of space vehicles can be rented to transport astronauts from the International Space Station and to it.
Said Ed Mango program director for NASA commercial crew briefing in Kennedy Space Center on Tuesday that NASA plans to invest between 300 000 500 million in each company is chosen as part of partnership agreements period of 21 months.
The new program aims to take advantage of previous investments made by private companies that NASA in the design of commercial spaceships.
With the space shuttle fleet to refer the U.S. to retire last year, Russia's monopoly on the transfer of personnel to the International Space Station, which is a laboratory at a cost of $ 100 billion for medical research, scientific and other. And NASA paid Russia about $ 60 million per person per flight to the station.
He said that the Mango spacecraft pilot must be able to transfer at least four people.
Source: Reuters
Said Ed Mango program director for NASA commercial crew briefing in Kennedy Space Center on Tuesday that NASA plans to invest between 300 000 500 million in each company is chosen as part of partnership agreements period of 21 months.
The new program aims to take advantage of previous investments made by private companies that NASA in the design of commercial spaceships.
With the space shuttle fleet to refer the U.S. to retire last year, Russia's monopoly on the transfer of personnel to the International Space Station, which is a laboratory at a cost of $ 100 billion for medical research, scientific and other. And NASA paid Russia about $ 60 million per person per flight to the station.
He said that the Mango spacecraft pilot must be able to transfer at least four people.
Source: Reuters