{"id":213,"date":"2016-01-20T04:11:42","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T10:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=213"},"modified":"2016-02-15T18:31:44","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T00:31:44","slug":"spacex-wins-nasa-crs-2-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=213","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Wins NASA CRS-2 Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA has awarded its CRS-2 Contract to SpaceX, along with partners\u00a0Orbital ATK\u00a0and Sierra Nevada Corp.\u00a0The CRS missions, short for Commercial Resupply Services,\u00a0are used\u00a0to make deliveries to the International Space Station. The missions started in 2008, with\u00a0NASA awarding SpaceX and Orbital ATK a $3.5 billion contract to perform 20 unmanned CRS\u00a0launches. The contract was later extended to cover missions through 2017, and the\u00a0value was raised to over $6 billion.\u00a0The field of\u00a0contractors competing for the new contract had included\u00a0Lockheed Martin and Boeing, but both of those companies decided to drop out of the bidding for various reasons, including congress blocking Boeing from the use of Russian made rocket engines in their proposal.\u00a0<span class=\"ticker\" data-id=\"202905\">Due to the lack of competition<\/span>, NASA has\u00a0awarded the new contract to the same 2 teams of\u00a0SpaceX and Orbital ATK, along\u00a0with the new comer Sierra Nevada.\u00a0The\u00a03\u00a0companies will operate the\u00a0resupply missions to the International Space Station from 2019 through 2024, with each company responsible for at least\u00a06 cargo missions at a fixed price.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-214\" src=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/spaceX-300x178.jpg\" alt=\"spaceX\" width=\"620\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/spaceX-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/spaceX-768x456.jpg 768w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/spaceX-1024x609.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/spaceX.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA has awarded its CRS-2 Contract to SpaceX, along with partners\u00a0Orbital ATK\u00a0and Sierra Nevada Corp.\u00a0The CRS missions, short for Commercial Resupply Services,\u00a0are used\u00a0to make deliveries to the International Space Station. The missions started in 2008, with\u00a0NASA awarding SpaceX and Orbital ATK a $3.5 billion contract to perform 20 unmanned CRS\u00a0launches. The contract was later extended [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions\/215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}