Wasting little time on implementing President Obama’s new direction for NASA, the space agency awards $50 million to commercial companies for developing support transport of astronauts to and from low Earth orbit. Among the winners was Amazon founder Jeff Bezo’s Blue Origin space venture.
– NASA began the second day of its forget the moon campaign by introducing
what the agency called the seven new pioneers of space, the private companies
that are developing support transport of astronauts to and from low Earth
orbit. NASA said it awarded $50 million in Space Act Agreements to the
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