Monday, September 23, 2013

Tax and Spend

Private company has glitch in supply rocket for ISS.
"The mission is a challenge for Orbital, which has invested more than five years and about $500 million of its own funds to develop a commercial-cargo capability. But it also presents a dramatic test of NASA's plans to outsource to industry all U.S. resupply missions to the space station. The agency has paid Orbital about $285 million to spur development of the Cygnus and Antares rocket system."
Poor Orbital. NASA only funded a little over a third of its development.

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