"Space Exploration Technologies, the privately held company known as SpaceX, said on Friday it filed a lawsuit to protest the U.S. Air Force's award of a multi-billion-dollar, non-compete contract for 36 rocket launches to a partnership of two long-time aerospace contractors...."
http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/04/ ... LF20140425
"Musk also raised questions about the U.S. government's contract with United Launch Alliance in light of the sanctions imposed by the United States to protest Russia's invasion of Ukraine's Crimea peninsula. Musk noted that the United Launch Alliance's Atlas rocket uses Russian-made RD-180 engines, while the individuals who are the subject of the U.S. sanctions include Dmitry Rogozin, Russia's deputy prime minister who is also the head of the country's space program.
"How is it that we're sending hundreds of millions of U.S. taxpayer money at a time when Russia is in the process of invading Ukraine?" Musk said. "It would be hard to imagine some way that Dmitry Rogozin is not benefiting personally from the dollars that are being sent there.""
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