Nasa has awarded a multi-billion-dollar contract to the group to develop the Orion vehicle, which will replace the space shuttle when it retires in 2010.More info at BBC.
The agency is dropping the shuttle's winged, reusable design and is going back to the capsule-style ships that first carried Americans into orbit.
Lockheed Martin beat a joint bid from Northrop Grumman and Boeing.
The US space agency wants to fly the Orion vehicles no later than 2014. Initially, they will go to the International Space Station, but Nasa plans to send one to the Moon in 2020.
Lockheed to build NASA's Orion
Posted on Saturday, September 02 2006 @ 0:09 CEST by Thomas De MaesschalckLockheed Martin will build the spaceship that will take NASA back to the Moon.
