Boeing gets big chunk of NASA space taxi work; ATK left out of the funding picture
Rocket display in front of ATK Launch Systems Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009, just outside Corinne, Utah. Tom Smart, Deseret News
Tom Smart, Deseret News
Our Take: Utah company ATK (Alliant Techsystems Inc.) is left out of $500 million in NASA funding.
NASA will pay more than $1 billion during the next 21 months to three companies to develop commercial spaceships capable of flying astronauts to the International Space Station, the agency said Friday.
The lion's share of the $1.1 billion allotted for the next phase of NASA's so-called "Commercial Crew" program will be split between Boeing and Space Exploration Technologies, a privately held firm run by Internet entrepreneur Elon Musk.
Read more about NASA's funding on ChicagoTribune.com.
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ATK Thiokol doesn't have enough people left to even do the work. I wouldn't give them money either.
But I thought Orrin and Rob and our other Congresscritters promised to protect us!
And Diligent, you must be thinking of Governor Herbert's administration there. They're the ones who have to pay off contractors who lost out due More..
It looks very suspsicious that Elon Musk at Space-X continues to get favors from the Obama Administration in the form of hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts (and he's also an Obama donor, by the way) when established companies like ATK More..