NASA Offers Expertise to Help Commercial Companies Build Rockets, Capsules | ATK & Excalibur Almaz | Spac
http://www.space.com/15464-nasa-private-spaceflight-unfunded-agreements.html
To help spur the development of a new fleet of commercial spacecraft to carry astronauts to and from the International Space Station, NASA has partnered with select private companies to foster the design and testing of the new vehicles. But the firms that received funding from NASA are not the only players in the game.