By Dave Ahearn NASA selected Orbital Sciences Corp. of Dulles, Va., to receive up to $170 million in federal seed money to spur Orbital and its team of companies to develop a private space cargo vehicle to help supply the International Space Station. That will become critical once the NASA space shuttle fleet hits its mandated retirement point in October 2010. The United States then won't have any transportation system to take crew and cargo to low Earth orbit, and…
NASA Chooses Orbital Sciences For $170 Million To Develop Space Transit Service
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