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Business/Financial

NASA Gives Boeing $799.5 Million Contract For Ares I Rocket Avionics

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Thursday, December 13th, 2007

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Boeing [BA] beat out Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. [BLL] to win a $799.5 million avionics instrument unit for the Ares I upper stage rocket that someday will lift the Orion crew exploration vehicle into space, NASA leaders announced in a news conference yesterday. That completes the major contract awards for the Constellation Program effort to design the next-generation U.S. spacecraft to replace the troubled space shuttle fleet. Lockheed Martin earlier won the contract for the Orion space capsule. The…

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