Orion Development Contract Modified
Late this afternoon NASA announced that it was making a significant modification to the Orion development contract with Lockheed Martin. The announcement of the modification, at a total cost of $385 million, was formally released at 4:00 pm, after Wall Street had shut down for the day.
The change in the contract will add two test flights of Orion’s launch abort system, halt production of a pressurized cargo version of Orion, and most significantly, add two years to the design phase of Orion development - thus slipping the initial delivery of flight hardware. Read more
