Every one of these companies gets, at least, six flights to deliver cargo to the space station, which will begin in late 2019 and extend through 2024, Xinhua quoted NASA as saying.
Orbital ATK of Virginia and SpaceX of California, the winners of the first round of NASA's Commercial Resupply Services contracts, have already used their own space capsules to send supplies several times to the orbiting lab about 400 kilometers above Earth.
The only new face is the Colorado-based Sierra Nevada, which has been developing a mini-shuttle called Dream Chaser.
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