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Commercialization

Commercial Companies Are Against Commercial Space – Sort Of

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
December 14, 2009
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Space battle for the White House under way, Orlando Sentinel
“Ares I supporters have opposed the panel’s findings, saying that Constellation and Ares I are better and safer than any commercial rocket. Until now, however, companies like Boeing have done most of their lobbying behind closed doors despite being urged by some lawmakers to take their cause public. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D- Arizona, the head of the House subcommittee with NASA oversight and the wife of NASA astronaut Mark Kelly, says she urged aerospace leaders to get their employees to write the President over the summer, but said only six letters were written. Boeing has the contract to build the upper stage of the Ares I rocket which it is developing with NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.”

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