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Space Companies Hatch Plans for Reusable Rockets

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Posted on October 14, 2011 at 1:51 PM EDT

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NASA Rocket Aims for Asteroids and Mars

An Announcement for an Unneeded Rocket While this seems like something new, it's really just the slow rollout of what Congress is forcing NASA to... (read full comment)  

Posted on September 14, 2011 at 7:20 PM EDT

Russia's Post-Shuttle Space Plans

parder_dade said: "It is the height of irresponsibility to retire our ONLY human qualified spacecraft with some lame plan of "privatization" which... (read full comment)  

Posted on July 14, 2011 at 5:18 PM EDT

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What are NASA's Post-Shuttle Plans?

Crying Over Their Own Bad Decisions Under Michael Griffin's watch the Shuttle program was cancelled, and the Constellation program, which was... (read full comment)  

Posted on July 9, 2011 at 4:04 AM EDT

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Was the Space Shuttle a Mistake?

Not A Mistake, But An Experiment That Lasted Too Long I think the idea of the Shuttle was a valid one to try, but that no one ever put hard... (read full comment)  

Posted on July 6, 2011 at 4:43 PM EDT

Private Space Industry Works to Replace the Shuttle

Commercial Is Really The Only Path Congress has funded the ISS through at least 2020, and contracts are currently in place to support it with... (read full comment)  

Posted on June 29, 2011 at 8:20 PM EDT

The Push-and-Pull of Rocket Science

Non-Value Added Mass To illustrate why a pusher LAS can be so attractive, all you have to do is look at the tractor-type LAS that the Orion... (read full comment)  

Posted on May 12, 2011 at 1:01 PM EDT

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NASA Offers $200 Million for an Orbiting Gas Station

Fill'er Up! In-space refueling is an enabling technology, and one that you would think would have been worked on by now. The reason it hasn't is... (read full comment)  

Posted on May 10, 2011 at 9:25 PM EDT

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Private Spacecrafts to Carry Humans Get NASA Funding

Commercial vs Government Transportation The last estimate I saw from Lockheed Martin for finishing the Orion (now called MPCV) was at least $4.5B.... (read full comment)  

Posted on April 25, 2011 at 12:58 PM EDT

SpaceX Sets Launch Date for Heavy-Lift Rocket

While it's good to worry about the distant future, SpaceX is doing it's part to move us towards the near future. The problem with travel to space... (read full comment)  

Posted on April 6, 2011 at 4:20 PM EDT

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