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Re:NASA Expands Commercial Space Program by marktangotango on Friday September 26, 2014 @01:34PM (#8373759)
>> the contracted services would include logistical and research cargo delivery and return to and from the space station through fiscal year 2020

SpaceX is the only one of two current contractors capable of returning cargo. Seems a bit skewed in favor of Falcon/SpaceX? Unless Sierra Nevada has the cargo capacity on the Dream Chaser...

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Re:NASA Expands Commercial Space Program by vonmoltke on Friday September 26, 2014 @03:24PM (#8374396)
...or Orbital Sciences has a return pod in the works. I would think they would be working on something, especially since SpaceX is already there.
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