NASA's biggest suppliers are building up business units to compete for a piece of the back-to-the-Moon mission, which even the U.S. government estimates will cost at least $104 billion over the next 15 years. With that kind of money at least potentially on the table, companies are establishing exploration units to bid on the space hardware—new and derived from space shuttle components—that NASA will use to send humans beyond low Earth orbit. "We see it as a major business opportunity," says Art Stephenson, chief of the newly formed Space Exploration Systems unit in Northrop Grumman's Integrated Systems sector.
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