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NASA Awards Space Cargo Grant

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the fedex-unavailable-for-comment dept.

pha7boy writes "NASA has made a recent award of 171 million dollars to Orbital Sciences Corp. of Virginia in order to aid the company in developing a feasible space cargo delivery service. 'The US space agency intends to hold an open competition in the years ahead for actual space station cargo-delivery contracts, but Orbital of Dulles, VA, is one of two companies receiving financial help from NASA to develop their proposed systems. The other is Space Exploration Technologies of El Segundo, CA.'"

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  1. Amazing.... by stox · · Score: 2, Funny

    what those campaign contributions can do.

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    "To those who are overly cautious, everything is impossible. "
  2. Can my dreams of being an astronaut come true? by erroneus · · Score: 3, Funny

    Can I just put in my application at UPS to be a cargo handler? :)

  3. Dominos Space Pizza by iminplaya · · Score: 2, Funny

    Anywhere in the world in 45 minutes or it's free.

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    What?
  4. This is one of many by wasted · · Score: 4, Funny

    NASA has several grants for COTS technologies planned in this area. The one discussed in the article is the least specific, or the "General Grant". There is another payload specific version ("Carry Grant"), the supporting technologies version ("Foster Grant"), a southwestern cuisine delivery version ("Flay Grant"), a version to improve color definition in delivery vehicle cameras ("Hue Grant"), and probably many others.

    Okay, I'll stop for now.