Surprised this is the top comment. Your first link is reporting on an unrelated military program to replace the RD-180 rocket engine. The other four links are a

Surprised this is the top comment. Your first link is reporting on an unrelated military program to replace the RD-180 rocket engine. The other four links are all blog spam using the same source: the Wall Street Journal article by Andy Pasztor. Pasztor is well known in the aerospace industry for writing what you might call "speculative" articles based on not much more than rumor. Edit: here's the WSJ article so people can go to the original source. You'll need the google trick to get around the paywall. http://online.wsj.com/articles/boeing-takes-lead-to-build-space-taxi-1410820865 http://online.wsj.com/articles/boeing-takes-lead-to-build-sp... Fair warning I don't think it has any actual news content. The expected outcome was that Boeing and SpaceX would both be winners, but because SpaceX is always cheaper, Boeing would get a larger amount of money. It certainly could be true, but the official announcement is in two hours so probably just makes the most sense to wait and see what happens rather than post more speculation.