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September 5, 2006

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Why did Lockheed win NASA's Orion contract?

While Lockheed Martin is an aerospace giant, with tons of experience in building
unmanned rockets, capsules and probes, it has never built a manned spacecraft
before. In fact, its one previous attempt was a complete failure.

So why did Lockheed win the Orion contract over the manned-space experts Grumman
and Boeing? Check out some of the speculation why:

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