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$1.5B refers to the commercial resupply contract, which is quite separate from the COTS contract which funded the development and demo program. Just to add to
by dasmoth 14y ago
$1.5B refers to the commercial resupply contract, which is quite separate from the COTS contract which funded the development and demo program.
Just to add to the confusion, the next Falcon+Dragon flight could be end up being either CRS-1 (if things go well tomorrow) or COTS-3 (if it looks like another demo is needed). But they really are separate contracts.