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NASA picks SpaceX, Orbital ATK capsules and SNC spaceplane to supply station [i]NASA has announced contracts for three U.S. companies to launch cargo to the International Space Station through the planned end of the orbiting outpost. "We are announcing the next chapter of the public-private partnership with American companies to ensure that NASA maintains the capability to resupply the space station from the United States through 2024," Ellen Ochoa, the director of NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston and a former astronaut, said in a press conference Thursday (Jan. 14). SpaceX and Orbital ATK, which have each been delivering research equipment and crew logistics to the space station since 2012 and 2014 respectively, will continue to fly their Dragon and Cygnus capsules under the new Commercial Resupply Services (CRS)-2 contracts beginning in 2019. In addition, NASA has selected Sierra Nevada Corporation to introduce its Dream Chaser space plane as a new third provider for the space station.[/i]
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