NASA and RUSSIA

... to help develop a means of transportation for NASA’s crew members to travel to the space station, investing about $1.4 billion in contracts with private contractors. • US receives two RD-181 rocket engines under latest $1bn contract with Russia. To meet the deadline, Bolden urged lawmakers to approve President Obama’s $1.243 billion budget request for the program, saying that otherwise Boeing and SpaceX would likely suspend all operations on the projects by next spring or summer. “Our Commercial Crew Transportation Capability (CCtCap) contractors are on track today to provide certified crew transportation systems in 2017,” Bolden ...