It is tough competing in the space business against Lockheed and Boeing. Customers are risk-adverse and what program manager ever got fired for selecting Lockheed or Boeing? NASA Awards Space Station Commercial Resupply Services Contracts tells that Orbital Sciences and Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) received contracts instead of the big players. The combined values of the contracts through 2016 is $3.5 billion.
NASA gives space cargo contracts to start-up firms tells that these new carriers will be responsible for 40 to 70 percent of the U.S. cargo to the station. NASA decided to award commercial contracts instead of paying for the Russian Progress vehicles to deliver the cargo. However, the U.S. is dependent upon the Russian Soyuz capsules for manned deliveries to the space station.
It was a nice Christmas present for the two firms, but I applaud NASA giving an opportunity to the smaller players. Now if we could just close that 5 year gap in manned space flight coming up....
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