NASA to Name Orion Contractor Today
We are gearing up for the announcement by NASA today which will name the Orion Contractor.
The United States begins its next step in human space flight with the announcement by NASA on today (Thursday) of a contractor to design and build spaceships to fly to the moon.
Lockheed Martin Corp and a partnership of Northrop Grumman Corp. and Boeing Co are vying for the work, estimated to be worth more than $18 billion over the next decade.
The Orion missions will include flights to the International Space Station, the moon and then Mars.
August 31st, 2006 at 1:01 pm
Reuters is reporting that we (Lockheed) won the contract
August 31st, 2006 at 2:06 pm
Congratulations to Lockheed Martin on winning this contract. We posted an update on this here http://www.orionweblog.com/index.php/2006/08/31/lockheed-martin-named-to-build-orion-spaceship/ . The lmco.com site is down/not responding at present - I’d like to see what they have to say. We’ll post updates as we know about them.
September 1st, 2006 at 2:37 am
I think this is pure hogwash and NASA Houston’s politics.
Boeing and Northrop should protest the bid process.