The Next Generation of Space Shuttles

Silas Marner Power-User Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: In my house, at the loom. Posts: 215 Good Answers: 3	The Next Generation of Space Shuttles 06/23/2006 3:40 PM
	Here's a really good article about the six companies vying to be the producer of the next generation of Space Shuttles. All six are involved in a $500 million (USD) design competition sponsored by NASA. Some like SpaceX are no surprise, but most, I've never heard of. It'll be interesting to follow the competition - I think it's in August (the article doesn't say). __________________ The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature . . .
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Jorrie Guru Join Date: May 2006 Location: 34.02S, 22.82E Posts: 3817 Good Answers: 68	#1 Re:The Next Generation of Space Shuttles 06/25/2006 9:06 AM
	Great move by NASA. The "go back to the Moon and then on to Mars" directive binds them a bit. Private companies have more modest directives and might just succeed with an ISS re-supply ship with space tourism paying part of the bill. __________________ "Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge." -- Kahlil Gibran
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