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In the room where it happened: When NASA nearly gave Boeing all the crew funding | "In all my years of working with Boeing I never saw them sign up for additional work for free."
"In all my years of working with Boeing I never saw them sign up for additional work for free."
This excerpt describes a fateful meeting 10 years ago at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC, where the space agency's leaders met to decide which companies should be awarded billions of dollars to launch astronauts into orbit. In the early 2010s, NASA's Commercial Crew competition boiled down to three players: Boeing, SpaceX, and a Colorado-based company building a spaceplane, Sierra Nevada Corporation. He was thrilled, because he figured this meant that NASA would have to pick two companies, SpaceX based on price, and Boeing due to its slightly higher technical score.
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