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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) – NASA divided up more than $269 meg on weekday among individual companies vying to build commercial spaceships to circularize astronauts to the International Space Station, the expanse authority said.

Boeing got $92.3 million, while privately held Sierra Nevada Corp got $80 million, NASA said.

Space Exploration Technology, the privately held consort supported by Internet bourgeois Elon Musk, got $75 million. The company, also known as SpaceX, is considering an initial open substance incoming year, Musk recently said.

Blue Origin, a secretive consort supported by Amazon's Jeff Bezos, got a lessen worth $22 million.

The companies were among individual competing for the incoming ammo of resource in NASA's Commercial Crew Development program.

The program is aimed at developing a U.S. commercial deciding to fly astronauts to and from the International Space Station after the U.S. expanse shuttles are old after this year.

In the interim, NASA module buy rides on Russia's Soyuz spaceships.

"We're sworn to safely transporting U.S. astronauts on American-made satellite and success the outsourcing of this work to foreign governments," NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said.

"These agreements are momentous milestones in NASA's plans to verify plus of American ingenuity to get to low-Earth orbit, so we crapper centre our resources on deep expanse exploration," he additional in a statement.

(Reporting by Irene Klotz, editing by Jane Sutton and physiologist Orr)

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