The competition to supply private commercial space transport services to NASA is heating up, as The Boeing Co. [BA] joined a PlanetSpace team that already included Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] and Alliant Technsystems Inc. [ATK]. That big-time PlanetSpace team faces competition from Space Exploration Technologies Corp., or SpaceX, and from Orbital Sciences Corp. [ORB], which have received some incentive seed money from NASA as they strive to produce cargo ships for logistics missions to the International Space Station. Later, some…
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