their first orders in Mayand November, respectively, and have started planning for, building and procuring the necessary hardware and assets to carry out their first missions for the agency.

NASA will identify at a later time which company will fly a mission to the station first.

Boeing met the criteria for NASA to award the company its second mission with the successful completion of interim developmental milestones and internal design reviews for its Starliner spacecraft, United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket and associated ground system.

Boeing’s Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility at Kennedy Space Center in Florida is seeing the buildup of the Starliner structural test article, and nearby, the main column of the crew access tower is in place at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 41.

FlightWhat is the Cumnock Shale Formation? While not yet well known among the natural gas & oil community,
geologists have drawn their attention to Shale Gas potential located in the Triassic Strata Deep River Basin of North
Carolina. Currently, the only two counties known to contain shale gas potential in this area are Lee County and
Chatham County, North Carolina. A third county in North Carolina, Moore County, is also being targeted for
oil & natural gas. The area of the Deep River Basin extends 150 miles along the northeast trend of central North
Carolina. While there are multiple formations of shale in Lee County and Chatham County, the one most gas-prone, is
known as the Cumnock Formation. The other shale formations are known as the Sanford Formation & Perkin Formation.

As of 2009, there