Washington Post Reports NASA/Boeing Call is Subject of Grand Jury Investigation
By Christian Davenport | November 17, 2020
Logo atop Boeing headquarters. Photo: Boeing.
Boeing’s bid to build a spacecraft capable of flying NASA astronauts to the moon didn’t meet NASA’s requirements, and the company was going to lose out on a contract worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
So in February, Doug Loverro, then the head of NASA’s human exploration directorate, called Jim Chilton, the senior vice president of Boeing’s space and launch division, to explain that the company was going to lose the contract and to inquire whether it would file a challenge, according to two people with knowledge of the situation.