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Article: Boeing receives moon contract
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- Daily Breeze
- Article date:
- August 29, 2007
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NASA: Most of the work on the rocket for the Ares project will
take place in New Orleans.
By Seth Borenstein
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NASA awarded a contract worth up to $1.13 billion Tuesday to
aerospace giant Boeing Co. to build a key part of its multi-
billion-dollar rocket system to send astronauts back to the moon.
The Chicago-based company, which had worked on every NASA-staffed
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 ...