Orbital Aims For Station With Lifting Body

By Frank Morring, Jr.
Washington

Competition for the job of sending crews to the International Space Station for hire will pick up in 2011 with the addition of a new vehicle proposal from Orbital Sciences Corp. in NASA’s Commercial Crew Development (CCDev) effort.

If selected in the $200-million second round of CCDev, the Dulles, Va.-based company will begin work in earnest on a four-seat composite “blended lifting body” launched at ...

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