Musk's SpaceX Faces Competition for $3.5 Billion NASA Cargo Flights
- Boeing, Sierra Nevada, Orbital ATK join quest for cargo award
- NASA to announce new contract winner as early as Thursday
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Less than a decade after its first rocket launch, Elon Musk’s SpaceX finds itself in an unfamiliar position.
The upstart venture is the incumbent vying to win the bulk of a $3.5 billion U.S. contract renewal while facing rivals that include Boeing Co., whose spaceflight roots date to the 1950s. At stake: a seven-year agreement to haul supplies and experiments to the International Space Station.