NASA chooses Boeing, SpaceX and Sierra Nevada to provide space taxi service Reanasa choses boeing spacex and sierra nevada to provide space taxi

NASA has picked three aerospace companies to build small rocketships to lift its astronauts into orbit.
This is the third phase of NASA's efforts to get private space companies to take over the job of the now-retired space shuttle. The companies will share more than $1.1 billion. Two of the ships are capsules like in the Apollo era and the third is closer in design to the space shuttle.
Once the spaceships are built, NASA plans to hire the private companies to taxi astronauts into space within five years. Until they are ready, NASA is paying Russia about $63 million per astronaut to do the job.