NASA Picks 3 Private Firms to Develop Space Taxis

[burntheships]

And the winners are:

Boeing Co. of Houston,
Space Exploration Technologies, (SpaceX), of Hawthorne, Calif.,
Sierra Nevada Corp. of Louisville, Colo.

NASA picked three aerospace companies Friday to build small rocketships to take astronauts to the International Space Station.

This is the third phase of NASA's efforts to get private space companies to take over the job of the now-retired space shuttle. The companies will share more than $1.1 billion. Two of the ships are capsules like in the Apollo era and the third is closer in design to the space shuttle.

Once the spaceships are built, NASA plans to hire the private companies to taxi astronauts into space within five years. Until they are ready, NASA is paying Russia about $63 million per astronaut to do the job.
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/nasa-picks-private-firms-develop-space-taxis-16922723

[Somamech]

Wow Boeing 

Hey BTS I am not sure if its been posted here on Thee Moon.. but did see how the Ruskis got up to the ISS in under 6 hours ?

Heck thats what legends of the moon were saying for ever 

[SarK0Y]

Wow Boeing 

Hey BTS I am not sure if its been posted here on Thee Moon.. but did see how the Ruskis got up to the ISS in under 6 hours ?

Heck thats what legends of the moon were saying for ever 

http://gizmodo.com/5931437/in-six-hours-a-russian-robo+freighter-sprints-to-the-iss-with-tons-of-supplies 

[Shasta56]

I wonder if the Louisville, CO company will use the spaceport that's supposed to be developed at Front Range Airport.  That might be interesting.

Shasta