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The New Age of Commercial Space Travel

NASA plans to retire the Space Shuttle program in 2010 and have a replacement, the Constellation, ready for launch in 2015. But the budget-starved space agency set the odds of making that deadline at only 65 percent in a report to Congress this week. Even if it meets the deadline, the Constellation's launch will come at the end of the longest gap between crewed U.S. space missions since the end of the Apollo Program and the development of the Space Shuttle. Sounds bad, but it could mean the beginning of the true Space Age. More »

7:40 AM on Thu Apr 3 2008
By Ed Grabianowski
1,229 views, 26 comments

Latest by Silver_Back: $500 round trip to the moon and mars please. *whispers* more »