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Statement by SASC Chairman John McCain on Air Force Certification of SpaceX for Defense Space Launches

Statement

Date: May 26, 2015
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Defense Foreign Affairs Science

U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ), Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, today released the following statement on the Air Force's certification today of SpaceX as a provider for defense space launch contracts:

"The certification of SpaceX as a provider for defense space launch contracts is a win for competition. Over the last 15 years, as sole-source contracts were awarded, the cost of EELV was quickly becoming unjustifiably high. I am hopeful that this and other new competition will help to bring down launch costs and end our reliance on Russian rocket engines that subsidizes Vladimir Putin and his cronies."


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