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NASA to say goodbye to Russian transport services by 2017

Washington, USA - "We’ve ended the outsourcing of space station resupply work", Administrator Charles Bolden claims

Charles Bolden, administrator of the American space agency NASA, hailed the success of the public-private partnership with American companies to resupply the International Space Station and announced the next phase of contracting with US companies to transport astronauts is set to begin next week. A little more than two years after the end of the Space Shuttle Program, the United States now has...

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Rome, Italy, 11/14/2013 18:45
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