NASA Awards Multibillion Rocket Contract to Boeing
NASA awarded a contract worth up to $1.13 billion Tuesday to aerospace giant Boeing Co. to build a key part of its multibillion-dollar rocket system to send astronauts back to the moon.
The Chicago-based company, which had worked on every NASA manned spaceship in the past, had been shut out of three earlier large contracts for NASA’s new spaceship and its plans to return to the moon. The new base contract is worth $514.7 million with another $610 million in options.
The new contract is to build the Ares I upper stage of the rocket, which would take astronauts on a short but crucial second phase of their trip to the moon.
Subcontractors include Summa Technology Inc., Hamilton Sundstrand, Moog Inc., Northrop Grumman, Orion Propulsion, United Launch Alliance, and United Space Alliance. Read more
