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Commercial Crew Contractors Could Miss Key Deadline Without Full Funding, Bolden Warns

Pat Host

Thursday, March 12th, 2015

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Commercial Crew Contractors Could Miss Key Deadline Without Full Funding, Bolden Warns

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NASA Administrator Charles Bolden warned a Senate panel Thursday that commercial crew contractors Boeing [BA] and Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) could miss their 2017 launch readiness deadlines if the civil space agency doesn’t receive all of the $1.2 billion it requested for the program in fiscal year 2016.“Any amount short of the $1.2 billion we requested will mean we will have to reduce the milestones that the two manufacturers accomplish,” Bolden told the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation space,…

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