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If all goes well, three years and $7 billion from now American and other astronauts will start visiting the International Space Station in a Boeing CST-100 or SpaceX Dragon spaceship. Their selection last week to complete NASA's Commercial Crew program was good for NASA, the ISS and commercial exploitation of space; challenging for Johnson Space Center, and bad for Russia and the Space Launch System (SLS).
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Entities 0 Name: NASA Count: 2 1 Name: Boeing Count: 1 2 Name: SpaceX Dragon Count: 1 3 Name: ISS Count: 1 4 Name: Johnson Space Center Count: 1 5 Name: American Count: 1 6 Name: HoustonChronicle.com Count: 1 7 Name: Russia Count: 1 Related 0 Url: http://ift.tt/1vn4ror Title: Sierra Nevada Chafes at NASA Space Taxi Selections Description: SpaceX and Boeing were awarded coveted NASA contracts earlier this month to ferry astronauts to low-Earth orbit on privately built space taxis. But Sierra Nevada, the third bidder in the space agency's multi-year Commercial Crew Integrated Capability (CCiCap) initiative, isn't taking its rejection sitting down.
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