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Being, SpaceX and Sierra Nevada to bring NASA to the ISS

Washington, USA - Three funding and three programmes to replace Soyuz

NASA has chosen three different aerospace companies for the programme which aims to bring the US astronauts onboard the International Space Station, replacing the current leasing of Soyuz capsules for the job. A great funding worth 1,1 billion dollars for the three aerospace industries for developing a new system capable of docking to the ISS. Two of the programmes are space capsules while the third...

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Rome, Italy, 08/06/2012 19:24
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