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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]From [URL=http://www.space.com/news/060831_nasa_cev_contract.html]Space.com[/URL]/Space News: <BLOCKQUOTE>[i]Lockheed Martin has long dominated NASA's robotic planetary spacecraft business and now has the opportunity to do the same in human spaceflight.[/i]</BLOCKQUOTE> If I understand correctly, the primary difference between Orion and X-33 is that with the earlier program, the vehicle design was left almost entirely to the contractor (Lockheed Martin). For this project, NASA has provided the corporation with specific requirements. Lockheed's ability to alter the overall concept is limited to such things as round, rather than rectangular solar arrays (though that in-of-itself is a simplication, its the example which gained the most attention today).[/B][/QUOTE]
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