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In short, they will be launching 1200 pounds of supplies, remotely doing a bunch of maneuvers designed to prove to NASA that they can get around safely in space
by vessenes 14y ago
In short, they will be launching 1200 pounds of supplies, remotely doing a bunch of maneuvers designed to prove to NASA that they can get around safely in space, and if those go OK, docking with the ISS.
This is so much cooler than a facebook IPO, I must say -- commercial US robot rocket ISS reloading. Come on!!
- baq 14y agoof course it's cooler than FB IPO. on one side, we have a bunch of guys selling ads. on the other, the stars.
- jerf 14y agoMan, I've missed that attitude. My childhood was in the 80s, when the dream was still only in its early phases of being strangled by the monstrosity that the whole NASA system has become. We could use a bit of optimism about the future. May history show this as the beginning of the second space age.