HOUSTON, Aug. 4 (UPI) -- U.S. companies should gear up for a return to the business of making spacecraft, NASA said.
"By investing in American companies and American ingenuity, we're spurring free-market competition to give taxpayers more bang for the buck," said NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, while announcing $1.1 billion in new NASA contracts for Boeing Co., Space Exploration Technologies Corp. and Sierra Nevada Corp, which is developing a shuttle-like space plane, only smaller.