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“NASA announces $1.1 billion in support for a trio of spaceships.” That was one of the headlines on August 3rd, 2012, when NASA announced it had committed US$1.1 billion over the next 21 months to support spaceship development efforts by a line-up of companies with the aim of having American astronauts flying on American spacecraft within five years.
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Given Orbital’s recent run of launch failures, NASA will no doubt be hoping for a change in the company’s fortunes; on March 4th, 2011, the agency’s Glory atmospheric research satellite was lost due to a mechanical failure on an Orbital Taurus XL rocket. This failure followed the February 24th, 2009, failure of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory due to a similar Taurus XL malfunction. The estimated loss to NASA for the failures was close to US$700 million.
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Seedhouse, E. (2013). The space taxi race. In: SpaceX. Other Springer-Praxis books of related interest by Erik Seedhoose. Praxis, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5514-1_7
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