CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - NASA, rejecting aerospace giants Lockheed and Boeing, awarded $3.5 billion in contracts to start-up companies on Tuesday to deliver cargo to the International Space Station after the U.S. space shuttles are retired.
Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), a Hawthorne, California-based company headed by PayPal founder Elon Musk, and Dulles, Virginia-based Orbital Sciences Corp are due to start cargo shipments to and from the space station beginning in 2010.
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