WASHINGTON, United States: NASA on Thursday (Friday in Manila) awarded three companies hundreds of millions of dollars to develop commercial space stations it hopes will eventually replace the International Space Station (ISS), which is due to retire around the end of the decade.
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin, aerospace company Nanoracks and defense contractor Northrop Grumman won $130 million, $160 million and $125.6 million contracts, respectively, to develop their orbital outposts.
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