Posted by tourdemars to Crew Exploration Vehicle at August 15, 2004 10:52 PM

Call it a space race. Competition to build a new craft to take astronauts to the moon and maybe Mars is on, with major area companies strategizing how to win contracts worth billions of dollars. And just how it all plays out will affect thousands of area jobs — from Clear Lake engineers to the Galveston science and medical communities — in an industry that clearly needs a boost.