FACT CHECK: Trump's made-in-US (and Europe) spacecraft

FACT CHECK: Trump's made-in-US (and Europe) spacecraft

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https://phys.org/news/2018-07-fact-trump-made-in-us-europe-spacecraft.html

"For the first time," the agency says, "NASA will use a European-built system as a critical element to power an American spacecraft." Airbus, Boeing's prime competitor in commercial air travel, leads an array of European companies that made the service module.

The actual Orion crew capsule, made by Lockheed as the prime contractor with more than 1,000 companies across the U.S. contributing, sat on the South Lawn of the White House as one of most striking exhibits of products made in the U.S. The multinational nature of space industry and exploration—and of the spacecraft itself—went unacknowledged.

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