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« 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.
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« Reply #1 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
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