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Space

Sierra Nevada Protests NASA’s Commercial Crew Award

Pat Host

Friday, September 26th, 2014

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Sierra Nevada Protests NASA’s Commercial Crew Award

Artist's illustration of Sierra Nevada's Dream Chaser concept. Photo: NASA.

Sierra Nevada Corp. (SNC) on Friday protested NASA’s Commercial Crew Program (CCP) award to Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) and Boeing [BA] with the Government Accountability Office (GAO), Defense Daily has learned. GAO is scheduled to have a protest decision no later than Jan. 5, 100 days following protest filing. NASA on Sept. 16 awarded a pair of contracts for Commercial Crew worth a combined $6.8 billion for the two companies to taxi astronauts to and from the International Space…

Congress

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