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NASA Outsources Resupply Missions to the ISS
27 Dec, 2008 | CATEGORY: Space Travel | SOURCE: NASA | Comments
SpaceX vehicles will make twelve trips to the space station and and second contractor, Orbital Sciences Corporation will have vehicles making eight trips between 2010 and 2016. And here's me thinking these so called private space companies just got their rockets flying in a straight line.
Turns out I'm right. They don't actually have the vehicles to do it just yet:
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/24/0151211