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Lockheed Martin Wins Contract to Build Mars Lander

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the up-up-and-away dept.

Lord_Slepnir writes "Lockheed Martin has won a contract to build the Orion crew exploration vehicle that will eventually take humans to the moon and then on to Mars. This vehicle will hopefully also replace the aging space shuttle fleet. According to NASA the vehicle will have manned missions by 2014 and moon missions by no later by 2020."

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  1. Re:While I agree competition is a good thing... by DerekLyons · · Score: 1, Troll
    If I am going to the moon, I would like to have a company who has a history of building manned spacecraft.

    You are pretty much stuck on this rock then - because there isn't such a company in existence today. *Nobody* has any current experience in designing manned spacecraft. Even the Russians limit themselves to modest modification to their existing craft - it will be very interesting to see how Kliper plays out (assuming it ever gets built).