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📡 The Wire

Northrop Grumman's $4.4 Billion Ares I First-Stage Contract Still Shows Activity 16 Years Later
Federal spending records show a $4.4 billion NASA contract held by Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation for Ares I first-stage development — signed in 2007 for a Constellation program launch vehicle NASA cancelled in 2010 — received a recorded modification this week.

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