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northernsouthern

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7. AS soon as Nasa approves it.

Reply to Peace Patriot (Reply #5)

Tue May 3, 2016, 12:45 PM

May 2016

I am sure they still have tons of funding and are competitive on a world market. There is no way that we could have USPSed the space program right? I am off to ask them to borrow one of their ships...I am sure they have a couple extra ones not in use.

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