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Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Still Support NASA?

NASA says it has found the ideal spaceship to take astronauts well out of Earth's orbit. It is the same spaceship they've been working on for years. Only now, the $5 billion Orion capsule is being called the Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle. The capsule can handle four astronauts on 21-day missions. It won't be reuseable. Instead of landing like the shuttle, it will splash down in the ocean with a parachute. NASA gave Lockheed Martin a $7.5 billion contract in 2006 to build it.

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