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AtheistCrusader

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19. Which ignores multiple simultaneous efforts to get all sorts of payloads into orbit.

Reply to Shadowflash (Reply #17)

Fri Oct 5, 2012, 09:31 AM

Oct 2012

Both people and stuff.

Yes, the shuttle was cool, and now it's gone and from a nostalgia standpoint that kinda sucks. I get that.

But NASA is on it. SpaceX is on it. We were doing things in the most expensive manner possible, and that just wasn't sustainable. NASA got bumped for one seat on one flight with a foreign national 3rd party launch program? OH NO.

Not like they don't have a contractual schedule with SpaceX for supplies to the space station, in addition to final testing on putting people in the Dragon capsule.

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