{"id":58608,"date":"2020-11-17T17:23:27","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T09:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/washington-post-reports-nasa-boeing-call-is-subject-of-grand-jury-investigation-2\/"},"modified":"2020-11-17T17:23:27","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T09:23:27","slug":"washington-post-reports-nasa-boeing-call-is-subject-of-grand-jury-investigation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/washington-post-reports-nasa-boeing-call-is-subject-of-grand-jury-investigation-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post Reports NASA\/Boeing Call is Subject of Grand Jury Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_263991\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-263991\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-263991\" src=\"https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/161121-boeing-logo-630x528.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/161121-boeing-logo-630x528.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/161121-boeing-logo-630x528-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/161121-boeing-logo-630x528-239x200.jpg 239w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-263991\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Logo atop Boeing headquarters. Photo: Boeing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Boeing<\/strong>\u2019s bid to build a spacecraft capable of flying <strong>NASA<\/strong> astronauts to the moon didn\u2019t meet NASA\u2019s requirements, and the company was going to lose out on a contract worth hundreds of millions of dollars.<\/p>\n<section>\n<p class=\"font--body font-copy gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md \">But NASA was worried that the corporate giant would protest the contract award, potentially holding it up for months at a time when the space agency was trying to meet a White House mandate to get astronauts to the lunar surface by 2024.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<p class=\"font--body font-copy gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md \">So in February, Doug Loverro, then the head of NASA\u2019s human exploration directorate, called Jim Chilton, the senior vice president of Boeing\u2019s space and launch division, to explain that the company was going to lose the contract and to inquire whether it would file a challenge, according to two people with knowledge of the situation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong><em>Read more from The Washington Post &gt;&gt;&gt;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Logo atop Boeing headquarters. Photo: Boeing. Boeing\u2019s bid to build a spacecraft capable of flying NASA astronauts to the moon didn\u2019t meet NASA\u2019s requirements, and the company was going to lose out on a contract worth hundreds of millions of dollars. But NASA was worried that the corporate giant would protest the contract award, potentially [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58608"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}