Griffith Ingram compiled a report from the "Space Entrepreneurship & Investment Conference”, held at Queen Mary College on 17th March, 2011.
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The Boeing Company has selected Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne to help mature the design of its Service Module and integrated Launch Abort propulsion system for the Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 spacecraft. The propulsion system is a critical element for a safe, affordable and near-term commercial crew transportation system to low-Earth orbit.
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WASHINGTON -- NASA on Monday selected four aerospace companies as winners in a months-long competition for a $269-million grant to develop spacecraft that can carry astronauts to the International Space Station -- hopefully within the next five years.
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Hopeful commercial spacecraft will be ready to carry humans into orbit by the middle of this decade, NASA awarded $269.3 million Monday to four companies designing and testing components for private space transportation vehicles.
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NASA has awarded four Space Act Agreements in the second round of the agency's Commercial Crew Development (CCDev-2), a commercial effort aimed to foster domestic crew transportation by the middle of the decade. The winners – ranging from lifting body to capsule spacecrafts – were Blue Origin, Sierra Nevada Corporation, Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) and Boeing.
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NASA has awarded four Space Act Agreements in the second round of the agency’s Commercial Crew Development (CCDev2) effort. Each company will receive between $22 million and $92.3 million to advance commercial crew space transportation system concepts and mature the design and development of elements of their systems, such as launch vehicles and spacecraft.
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HOUSTON, April 18, 2011 - Boeing [NYSE: BA] has been selected for the second round of NASA's Commercial Crew Development (CCDev) program. Under a $92.3 million CCDev-2 contract, the company will further mitigate program risk and mature the system design of its Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 spacecraft.
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NASA has awarded four Space Act Agreements in the second round of the agency's Commercial Crew Development (CCDev2) effort.
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A huge, unmanned British space plane is on pace to start launching payloads into Earth orbit in less than a decade. But first it must pass a critical technology test in June.
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After deflecting questions for months, members of the Google Lunar X Prize team Moon Express Inc. are beginning to reveal the broad outlines of a business plan that includes financial backing from Internet entrepreneurs and a focus on lunar mining.
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Ticket sales commenced: many celebrities among first co-pilot astronauts.
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To date, Iridium NEXT is the largest commercial space launch contract with any single entity. All total, the contract is worth an estimated $3 billion. Iridium Communications Inc.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Reuters) - Space Exploration Technologies, the space transportation company founded by Internet entrepreneur Elon Musk, could pursue an initial public offering next year.
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In a month unusually full of significant anniversaries, April 5th—the day SpaceX founder Elon Musk announced his company’s plans to develop the Falcon Heavy rocket—may eventually prove to be a red-letter date of sorts in the American space history, one of a number that are beginning to accrue to his company.
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Blue Origin is developing a Crew Transportation System, comprised of a Space Vehicle (SV) launched first on an Atlas V launch vehicle and then on Blue Origin's own Reusable Booster System (RES). NASA funding through CCDev 2 and the future Commercial Crew program will accelerate availability of the Blue Origin CTS.
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Boeing Co. garnered the largest of four NASA Space Act Agreement awards designed to nurture the development of commercially operated astronaut transport systems, landing a deal worth $92.3 million to refine the design of its CST-100 crew capsule, the U.S. space agency announced Monday, April 18, 2011.
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In 2009, NASA began the Commercial Crew Development (CCDev) initiatives to stimulate efforts within the private sector to develop system concepts and capabilities that could ultimately lead to the availability of commercial human spaceflight services.
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Lots of reactions and comments flowing in from around the country on NASA's CCDev 2 awards of $270 million to Blue Origin, Boeing, Sierra Nevada Corporation and SpaceX.
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The Federation Congratulates NASA's Efforts to Restore US Crew Transportation Capability Following Retirement of the Space Shuttle and Decrease Reliance on Russian Soyuz.
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NASA is awarding $269.3 million to four companies that plan to work on new spaceships capable of ferrying astronauts into orbit. The money is going to Blue Origin, the Boeing Co., Sierra Nevada Corp. and SpaceX, with Boeing coming out as the biggest winner.
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Boeing Co. garnered the largest of four NASA Space Act Agreement awards designed to nurture the development of commercially operated astronaut transport systems, landing a deal worth $92.3 million to refine the design of its CST-100 crew capsule, the U.S. space agency announced April 18.
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Copies of slides for a presentation at the Future In Space Operations teleconference on Jan 26th, given by Mark Holderman and Edward Henderson of NASA JSC.
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Victoria's Secret model Doutzen Kroes is set to fly into space aboard XCOR's Lynx suborbital space plane from the Caribbean island of Curacao in 2014.
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$3 Billion Launch Contract Goes to SpaceX to Launch Iridium Next.
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