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For decades, the space industry has been dominated by aeronautic stalwarts like Boeing, whose early work with the government included developing the Dyna-Soar crewed orbiting spacecraft in 1959. Shortly thereafter, Boeing — which became a publicly traded company in 1962 — extended its hands into a wide range of other space-related activities, such as contracting with NASA to build Lunar Orbiters in the 1960s to photograph the moon, along with helping to develop Saturn V modules that sent the first Apollo astronauts to the moon.