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Title: First commercial company to dock with space station
Post by: BanditVol on May 26, 2012, 08:16:04 EDT

http://www.onorbit.com/node/4664

There were some close calls with the range sensors on the way in...they nearly aborted, but it got done.

This was a cargo only flight, but this spacecraft is one of many competitors to replace the Shuttle.  That might actually happen in a couple of years.  I hope so (from whoever gets there first).  Commercial or government, we need AMERICAN human access to space.


Title: Re: First commercial company to dock with space station
Post by: Volznut on May 28, 2012, 04:22:15 EDT
a much better way to go. We spend a hell of a lot of resources and energy just getting out of Earth's pull