WSJ Reports Boeing To Beat SpaceX For Manned Taxi To ISS

PvtVoid writes The Wall Street Journal reports (paywalled) that NASA is poised to award a key contract for manned transport to the International Space Station to Boeing over rival SpaceX: "Recent signals from the Obama administration, according to the officials, indicate that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's leadership has concluded on a preliminary basis that Boeing's proposed capsule offers the least risky option, as well as the one most likely to be ready to transport U.S. crews to the international space station within three years. The officials cautioned that a last-minute shift by NASA chief Charles Bolden, who must vet the decision, could change the result of the closely watched competition." Here is a non-paywalled link to an article at CNET.

Comments

I don't get it.

[i kan reed]

Why don't they just have the space station sound stage on earth, like the moon one, why do they need to fake being in space in orbit?

Re:I don't get it.

[Anonymous Coward]

Nothing was faked about the moon landing, they really did land on the actual moon.
It was the take off that was staged on a moon-based sound stage; they never really got that rocket all the way from the earth to the moon. It was launched from the dark side and only flew halfway around the moon before dropping the moon capsule.

If you can't beat 'em, join 'em

[Crash McBang]

Any bets on SpaceX building their own space station so that they will have something to fly their spacecraft to?

Simple solution to the Space Taxi business ...

[BarbaraHudson]

Just wait a while - Uber will offer a cheaper space taxi. Of course, the boosters might be held together by duct tape, there's no regulations whatsoever, but if it blows up the passengers won't be posting negative reviews, so it's all good, right?