Comments on: Griffin reaffirms his support for COTS http://www.spacepolitics.com/2006/05/01/griffin-reaffirms-his-support-for-cots/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=griffin-reaffirms-his-support-for-cots Because sometimes the most important orbit is the Beltway... Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:35:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: i_s_s_alpha http://www.spacepolitics.com/2006/05/01/griffin-reaffirms-his-support-for-cots/#comment-7825 Wed, 10 May 2006 16:50:40 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=960#comment-7825 As an update to the thread in the China/U.S. Cooperation section that evolved into a COTS discussion:

On May 9th NASA alerted 6 companies of their selections for the COTS program.

According to Aero-News and MSNBC they are:

Rocketplane/Kistler
Space X
t/Space
SpaceDev
Spacehab
Andrews Space

In the thread I predicted 5. Someone else feared that it would only be Boeing and Lockheed Martin (I also feared that as well).

Now we will how many (if any) of these companies will be ready by 2010. I fear that will only be 0 to 2.

]]> By: Donald F. Robertson http://www.spacepolitics.com/2006/05/01/griffin-reaffirms-his-support-for-cots/#comment-7824 Mon, 01 May 2006 18:08:29 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=960#comment-7824 The proof in the pudding is who wins the contracts. If it’s all the usual suspects, COTS does not exist except in name.

— Donald

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