Companies await NASA contract nod

Published August 31, 2006 4:00am ET



NASA is scheduled to announce this afternoon which company will build the next-generation space vehicle expected to take U.S. astronauts back to the moon.

Bethesda-based Lockheed Martin and a team composed of Northrop Grumman and Boeing are competing for the contract, which experts believe could initially be worth as much as $10 billion.

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