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Forum:	Exploration: Asteroids, Moon and Mars
Topic:	Lockheed Martin awarded Orion contract

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Your Reply: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	[QUOTE]Originally posted by Robert Pearlman: [B] [QUOTE]Originally posted by mensax: [b]Was there... will there ever be... any reasons given for NASA's selelction of Lockheed over Northrop?[/b][/QUOTE] From [URL=http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/01/business/01nasa.html?hp&ex=1157169600&en=0f1673d2e1f02766&ei=5094&partner=homepage]The New York Times[/URL]: <BLOCKQUOTE>[i]In a late-afternoon news conference to announce the decision, NASA was tight-lipped about the reasons, saying the details of the two competing bids were "proprietary." Doug Cooke, a deputy associate administrator who led the selection team, said both proposals "were sound and carefully prepared." Mr. Cooke said the Lockheed Martin design looked "achievable," an indication that it relied more heavily on known technologies than developing new ones. "This is a design that is based on known capabilities," he said.[/i]</BLOCKQUOTE>[/B][/QUOTE]
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