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Old 05-19-2011, 04:53 PM   #32
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Originally Posted by RobertHarriSS View Post
We're going to pay the Russians for seats on their Soyuz rockets for now.

Also the government is giving money to private aerospace companies that are developing launch vehicles like Space X. Space X has won the contract to develop the successor to the shuttle. The plan is, these private companies will be able to get our astronauts into space (to and from the ISS) a lot cheaper than the STS. So, for the near future NASA is kind of out of the human space flight business which I think SUCKS!

It'll be sad to see NASA go. :(
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