Rusty wrote:

LockMart Wins CEV Contract - NASAWATCH

http://www.nasawatch.com/

http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/new...thewritestuff/

-Rusty
Looks like lockmart is getting all available aerospace bound taxpayers
money. After awarding all military planes contracts to lockeed is the
government trying to kill the competition in the space arena too? Aviation
Week states that the choice was made because "they promised to fly sooner".
LOL. That reminds me of the ATF competition when YF-22 was selected
because "closer to production standard". 15 years later USAF fielded their
first operational F-22. A promise is just a promise, should not be among
selection criteria. So American taxpayers will pay 8 billions for a scaled
up Apollo replica. One would say: let's choose the ones who made the
original hardware. Nope. Let's choose lockmart design whose "only
resemblance to the original Apollo CM stops at the service module". In fact
it is solar powered and it's arrays are shaped like round pizza pans
instead of long rectangles. I am astounded by the courage shown in this
incredible innovation.