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Bolden Talks CRS-2 Award Slip, Technologies Reducing Human Risk

Friday, May 22nd, 2015

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NASA Administrator Charles Bolden on April 23 called the slip of an estimated contract award date for the second Cargo Resupply Services effort (CRS-2) a “good news story” due to an “abundance of proposals.”“The first time, I think we had two or three,” Bolden told sister publication Defense Daily after a presentation in downtown Washington celebrating 25 years of the Hubble Space Telescope. “This time, we had a number of (proposals), it takes the team more time to evaluate.”The estimated…

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